Word: gilt
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...cafe would suddenly spring up upon his chair and shout out, "Vive L'Empire," it didn't matter much which, and straightway thirty more would leap up on their chairs, some laughing, some weeping in an excess of patriotic zoal all shouting in fury. Soldiers walked about in gorgeous, gilt buttoned uniforms kicking children into the gutters. Women rode in the Bois in tight waists and hats which the world was unfortunately destined to remember three quarters of a century later. Ambassadors clicked polished heels and bowed low over polished finger nails. Workmen would look up through dirty shop windows...
Another sculptor who attracted passing attention at the Chicago Art Institute was Stanislaw Szukalski. a passionate Pole who had one well executed statue on view. Several years ago he exhibited a piece upon which the jury smiled. He arrived at the exhibition hall next morning, found a little gilt card marked HONORABLE MENTION pinned to his statue. Sculptor Szukalski tore the card in shreds, flung the pieces in the face of a startled watchman and shouted, "You can't honor me!" Last week nobody tried...
...hats and Chesterfields. There were purple satins and old golds. There were the first warm greeting and the last cold good night. There were the best of times, and there were the worst of times. There was an evening mist. There were missed chances. There was the garish, gilt ballroom flooded with light. And there was the moon...
...Erskin, the man who put the final and triumphant touch of grimness into Subway Express and The Last Mile. The same note of grimness has unfortunately thrust itself into I Love an Actress, producing an effect not unlike that of a wispy Marie Laurencin drawing surrounded by a baroque gilt frame. Joe Mielziner has done sets that are too gorgeous for any actor to be funny in front...
Other good details?Wynne Gibson shooting "The Big Feller," gang boss, in the back, throwing in the pistol and locking the door of the room in which The Big Feller is alone with Miss Sidney; the derby hat of a murdered beer-runner, with his gilt initials prominent in the crown, floating down a city river; the closing episode in which the gangsters who were going to take Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney for a ride are themselves taken for a ride. The story is made valid by such details and is no less properly in the Hugo tradition...