Word: gilt
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Thoroughly buttonholed, I left Mr. Taylor and Parlor B, and went into the gilt-ceilinged lobby of the Sheraton...
...second prizewinner, Rhys Caparn, 41, models nothing but animals. Her Animal Form, an inquisitive mammal with only a suggestion of a head and a pelt flecked with green and gilt, was derived from wild cattle she saw at the Bronx Zoo. The remaining prizes went to Chicagoan Abbott Pattison for his robot-like Striding Man and to Pennsylvanian Joseph Greenberg for a sturdy but graceful...
...three-story climbs were nothing to him. Once he made it all the way to the top of a 100-ft. extension ladder. Whiskers fell into a drum of ink at a printing-plant fire and came up black. Once, he left a blazing paint factory glittering with gilt. He was unruffled...
...British subjects, the Speaker holds levees at which court dress (breeches and orders for men, formal gowns for women) is worn. M.P.s must bow to him when entering and leaving the House. It is only when Mr. Speaker takes a ceremonial drive in his four-wheeled, 250-year-old gilt coach that his dignity is tried a little. Shakes will get an escort of but one Life Guardsman (the King's escort includes Life Guards and Horse Guards), and his coach, drawn by two dray horses provided by a firm of London brewers, has no brakes...
...Condition Satisfactory." At 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, the anxious crowd at the Palace gates got the word for which they had waited so long. "The King," said a bulletin pencilled on a gilt-framed white card and hung outside the Palace, "underwent an operation for lung resection this morning. Whilst anxiety must remain for some days, His Majesty's immediate postoperative condition is satisfactory...