Word: gilt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shakespeare's instincts played him false. For his pageant is more solid than flesh. It has not faded; the works seem to grow more substantial each year. In the summer of '74, beyond the gilt-edge bindings and Variorum editions, Shakespeare lives in his favorite place-onstage...
...been so troubled about their safety. Though political in aim, the Hearst kidnaping was essentially a variant graft on that earlier malign strand of U.S. history. And the list of possible targets is no longer confined to the affluent. Murphy, 40, a man of comfortable but hardly gilt-edged circumstances, was apparently singled out for his prominence as a newsman and his importance to the Constitution's corporate owner. Thus when a demand of $700,000 for his ransom was made, it was clearly directed not to his family but to his employer, Cox Enterprises of Dayton. That sort...
...years as the grande dame of American high society and regal mistress of a life-style evocative of the lost opulence of Victorian empires. Last week, at her Georgian estate in Washington, D.C., Marjorie Post died quietly of a heart attack at age 86, and with her death a gilt-edged volume of American history came...
...that aside, the shroud has an almost hallucinatory air: a green and glittering robot of semiprecious stone, assembled round a dummy. The blunt toes and plated wedge of a nose point at the roof, the eyeless head rests as though in a machine's sleep on its gilt bronze pillow...
Vesco's biggest problem is his increasingly tarnished reputation. Though he denies any wrongdoing, the SEC charges that he and his associates looted $224 million from four I.O.S.-managed funds, selling off gilt-edged stocks and stashing the money in various banks and dummy firms controlled by him or his associates. The commission's case to halt further alleged plundering of the funds is now before the courts...