Word: gilt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Church calendar, was to be a great day for a cabal of Rumanian Army officers. Naturally King Carol, his fat little son Michael, his brother Nicholas and Queen Mother Marie, would go to worship in the 270-year-old Cathedral, which stands high above Bucharest's gardens and gilt cupolas. Someone would throw a grenade, another and another into the midst of the royal worshippers. Entirely rid of its eccentric royal family, Rumania would be ready for a military dictatorship. One chore would remain and that would be to go to the villa hard by the king...
Last week, under like circumstances, Rockefeller Center became the butt for town wits and art critics. Installed early last month in the Center's plaza was a huge gilt Paul Manship statue of Prometheus poised in a swimming pose on a mound and encircled by a ring carved with zodiacal symbols. Last week Essayist Christopher Morley in the Saturday Review of Literature wrote of it thus: "I am appalled by the Yiddish Hurdler on the new terrace of Rockefeller City. Under those glorious perpendiculars . . . this gesticulating gigolo in gilt. Besides he is just as immoral as the banished Lenin...
...American Metal loan was first considered by British banks. This raises an interesting question of foreign competition for gilt-edged loans. Foreign banks are not under the control of the Securities Act. Should American banks stand by and see 6 per cent, loans go to other countries? Naturally they want to make money by lending it and with the bond market stagnant and relatively few good bonds available except at low yields, the banks are looking toward 6 per cent, loans as promising them a chance to overcome these last three years of meager return...
...flag was out at Sloan's Washington furniture auction house last week to mark another auction. It was not very smart furniture-ricketty rosewood tables, bulbous bureaus, gilt knicknacks popular in the late go's. But Abraham Lincoln's granddaughter, Mrs. Robert J. Randolph, went down to the sale as did 300 other Washington socialites, for under the auctioneer's hammer were the household effects of Admiral &; Mrs. George Dewey. No U. S. hero, not even Charles Augustus Lindbergh, was ever the object of more hysterical mob adulation than was the walrus-mustached old gentleman...
Until Eleanor Roosevelt came there, the White House's most energetic mistress had been Dolly Madison. She furnished the executive mansion with fine gilt chairs built in France, had the good sense to hide the Lansdowne portrait of Washington and fly to Virginia when the British invaded Washington. But when the British left, Dolly Madison came back home. As every reader of newspapers is by now aware. Franklin Roosevelt's Eleanor uses No. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. less as a home than as a base of operations. Mrs. Madison was limited to horses as her means of locomotion...