Word: gilt
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...tularemia, and were inedible, when the city sealer declared that every ton of Post coal was short-weight, Mr. Bonfils refused even to be abashed. Did not every paper chute shout "The Denver Post, the People's Big Brother?" Did not the Post Building facade bear in two foot gilt that stirring invitation, "O Justice, when expelled from other habitations, make this thy dwelling place"? Had not Bonfils offered three awards: $25000 for the Denver Post tuberculosis cure, $25000 for a non stop world flight beginning and ending in Denver, $50000 to the man who would insure that the first...
They met in the vast study of Montesquieu at La Brode. Scores of tapers which flickered in the intricately wrought candelabra scarcely brightened the hall, but reflected dimly from the gilt and calf binding which lined the walls, or brought into sharper relief the darkness of the richly ornamented carving on woodwork and wainscote. The men standing about the table by the fire, jesting and arguing noisily, were gentlemen of the age of the sun king, respondent in satin and silver and gold, peruked, armed with jeweled swords and dainty snuff-boxes, from which one was even then providing himself...
...Business Administration was being built across the Charles, two undergraduates, having passed French 2, and mellowed by their celebrations, solved the problem. The Morgan Business Library was still a mess of foundations and holes, Feeling that a library of any sort should be built not only of bricks, mortar, gilt domes, but also of books, they did their part. Contractors arriving on the job the next morning found piled in the corner of the future basement of the Morgan Library, beside a steam shovel, a collection of the eight little blue textbooks...
...complicated tap dance up & down a pair of Tom Thumb steps, sits down at a portable piano and sings the tuneful theme song, "Hold Your Horses," to his mare Magnolia. When he refers to Magnolia's heart of gold a flap opens in her side, displaying a large gilt heart. A midget in a tiny horse's suit runs out on the stage with Magnolia's dinner pail, a feedbag full of oats. Broadway Joe takes the bag, pats the midget, blandly remarking: "That's her son. This is her fodder." Assisted by uncouth Dave Chasen...
...over half an hour, while four bearded brocaded priests chanted at them, led them round & round the altar and sprinkled them with holy water, bride & groom stood, holding lighted candles. The bride swayed dangerously once or twice but did not collapse. Among the nine ushers who took turns holding gilt crowns over the heads of the couple were Prince Theodore of Russia, Serge Lifar, a dancer at the Paris opera, and three other Woolworth heirs, cousins of the bride: James Donahue, Woolworth Donahue, and Fraser McCann...