Word: gilt
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Many a Washington tourist could identify the next Governor of the Federal Reserve Board as the gilt-lettered name of the donor of a fine head of Abraham Lincoln, sculptured by famed Gutzon Borglum and standing in the rotunda of the Capitol...
...twelve-year-olds are honest and do not go from store to store to get more than one free camera each, there will be more than 500,000 young picture-takers at large on the continent by the end of the year, all equipped with special gilt Hawk-Eyes...
...17th floor of the 24-story American Surety Co. building at No. 100 Broadway, Manhattan, is a black wall sign with this gilt lettering...
Dealer Phillips hurried to the express office, found in the case a big gilt frame with ragged edges of canvas where the painting had been torn out. There was no clue as to the time or place of the theft. Dealer Phillips said he believed it the work of a "novice or an expert in a great hurry...
...were evasive. Gamblers Alvin C. Thomas ("Titanic Thompson") and Nathan ("Nigger Nate") Raymond, describing a $300,000 stud poker game, said that McManus was a "cheerful loser." Bridget Farry, hotel chambermaid, who went to court in an emerald dress with a green ribbon in her hair, silver stockings and gilt shoes, refused to identify McManus. The prosecution could not connect McManus with the battered automatic, could not establish a motive why he should shoot Rothstein for owing him money...