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Immediately Publisher Marshall set out to make the Times a fit background for himself. He installed a gold-braided doorman with "Times" across his visor, put all the art staff in smocks with "Times" across the fronts, had the building painted pale grey outside, white-&-tan within, had large gilt eagles painted on all doors...
...Jenkins appeared in flame-colored velvet, with yellow ringlets piled high on her head. For a starter she picked Brahms' Die Mainacht, subtitled on her gilt program as "O singer, if thou canst not dream, leave this song unsung." Mrs. Jenkins could dream if she could not sing. With her hands clasped to her heart she passed on to Vergebliches Standchen, which she had labeled "The Serenade in Vain...
...return for a contribution of $100 to the Los Angeles "Protective Order of Police," British Author Hugh Seymour Walpole received a gilt card guaranteed to command special police courtesy anywhere in the West. After a few experiences with the card. Author Walpole asked the city attorney to investigate the "Protective Order of Police...
...operating at 88% of normal (1926). A $20,000,000 annual profit in 1929 had turned to a string of deficits. Last week, however, in a voice which could certainly be heard as far as Washington. Board Chairman Clarence Mott Woolley roared to a reporter in his great black & gilt Manhattan headquarters...
...king. Samuel, who had been a mule-minder in the Burnham mills, frightened his wife by blowing in their whole savings on cotton-mill stock, made a lucky strike and took up speculation as a living. Everybody else was doing likewise. Conservative Millowner Houghton got involved in many a gilt-edged scheme. Even young Harry, who had literary ambitions, let his better judgment go hang when pretty Trix urged him, and embezzled his library's funds to get some easy money. That time he and everyone else got away with it. But 1921 was a different story: cotton slumped, stocks...