Word: gilt
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State laws and sound old insurance practice restrict insurance companies to the gilt-edged, low-income investments...
...gilt medal the heroic baker has to observe these stern commandments: bake excellent bread; build field ovens quickly; economize in the use of flour, butter and firewood; take care of the equipment; camouflage; be clean...
...quarter million or so predecessors, the studying teachers flock to the Grove before and after classes. On rustic benches around trees named for the States, they foregather to 1) exchange impressions of the advanced intellectual life, 2) make dates to be snapshot in front of Alma Mater's gilt statue, 3) talk about exotic eating possibilities downtown, 4) plan tours of the city's features, from Chinatown, Rockefeller Center, the Empire State Building, to the nightclubs (where many will probably enrage waiters by asking for nonalcoholic drinks...
...Gilt-hero Payne flits from Broadway to Banf, a cozy little hideway of 2000 rooms in the Rockies, hot on the trail of his lost love. It's the standard routine--the continental pursuit ending deep amongst nature's element. It had to be that way. Payne is in his element when he gets into the woods. But this time nature complicates things by throwing in a bevy of assorted wolves as only Hollywood and Caesar Romero can portray the species. Between the cavortings of these over-anxious characters, the screen is crammed with dancer John...
...fast-moving, three-cornered Wall Street fight ended last week with two battlers down for the count and much of the gilt knocked off the once-popular competitive-bidding method of selling bonds...