Word: gilts
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...royal face, small, round and rosy, peeped from a window in the stern facade of Buckingham Palace one morning last week. Out the palace gate was clattering a coach of gilt and glass. Above it the three golden genii of England, Scotland and Ireland supported replicas of the Crown, the Sceptre, the Sword of State and the emblems of knighthood. Within the coach rode awfully the King-Emperor and the Queen-Empress...
...decorative scheme of the auditorium naturally affects the general illumination. Gilt and silver even in subdued light may produce annoying reflections and, in some instances, these are responsible for an unfortunately low degree of lighting...
...rest of the production was surprisingly above the Repertory's average. It seemed that the cast shone in their paste and brass setting to better advantage than in any of their platinum and gilt-edged plays of the early season. The triangle which the play required was an acute-angled isoceles, with Guy Phillips, the lover of the lady in the case, flubbing badly. Mr. Jewett, in the role of the ridiculously stupid and irate husband, was not to be surpassed. His whole stage presence lends itself to the role. Miss Taylor struggled with the incredible role of the lady...
...faded gilt, on the wooden facades of turnpike hotels, and on the signs of gloomy but unclosed saloons near the dockyards and railway stations of cities, one still encounters the words "EHRET'S BEER ON DRAUGHT." Last week George Ehret, 92, died in Manhattan of pneumonia. He left...
...three periods last night only the gilt edge goal guarding of Morrill enabled the Crimson to escape the fate that befell it last year when B. U. was the only American college sextet to outscore it. For three periods the Boston team had outplayed the Cambridge skaters in every position except the net, and the regulation time ended with the score deadlocked...