Word: gilt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imposed, it is imperative that we correct them immediately and make a maximum effort." Said former U.S. Ambassador to Italy Glare Boothe Luce: the beep of the Soviet satellite "is an intercontinental outer-space raspberry to a decade of American pretensions that the American way of life was a gilt-edged guarantee of our material superiority...
...sidewalk in front of Montreal's gilt-trimmed Ritz-Carlton Hotel, placard-bearing pickets from some 20 labor unions staged an indignant demonstration one morning last week. "The workers protest," one sign proclaimed. "After Murdochville, Kruppville" warned another, in an obvious attempt to keep the United Steelworkers' strike at the Murdochville works of the Gaspe Copper Mines Ltd. in the public eye. In one of the Ritz-Carlton's handsomely appointed suites, German Industrialist Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 50 (TIME, Aug. 12), shrugged off the demonstration: "In Germany we have good relations with...
...directors were praising Bing's 1956-57 record (the house sold 94% of capacity all season long), Bing was in Germany, window-shopping for the latest fashions in opera houses. After clambering about the bobsled-shaped boxes of Cologne's stark new opera theater, plush-and-gilt partisan Bing said with a shudder: "The sacrifice you make here is glamour. I believe New York still wants its opera glamorous...
...nearly two hours the models perform their ritualistic dance, ending with the traditional wedding dress. Then, with a spatter of conventional applause, the audience erupts from the gilt seats and flows down upon the black-clad vendeuses stationed at every step on the stairway. Each buyer has her personal vendeuse, each vendeuse her jealously guarded clients. Many will return later to make their decisions. But others, momentarily unhinged, corral their vendeuses, rush off to a grey-curtained alcove, get out of their street dresses and demand to try on themselves one of the creations they have just seen modeled...
...last week U.S. Government bonds snapped back for the most hopeful sign of recovery in bond prices since late 1954. Long-term Government bonds scored the largest single day's advance since June 1953, shot up as much as if points during the week, a healthy gain for gilt-edge securities. Encouraged by that sharp rise, trading picked up swiftly in both corporate and municipal bonds. New issues moved quickly into investment portfolios, and many municipal bonds sold out completely...