Word: gingerbread
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...Line steamers were one of the last relics of a garish, opulent, but less hurried day. Once, 100 river steamers had competed for the river trade. The gingerbread grandeur of their interiors gave the passengers the elegant impression of a transatlantic voyage with none of its discomforts. Cotillions were held on their decks; financiers and gamblers masquerading as financiers thronged their saloons...
...Junk the gingerbread monstrosity on 39th Street and build a modern opera house, equipped with the last word in mechanical, electrical and acoustical stage devices...
Vital Statistics. Age: 58 (born Sept. 8, 1889, in Cincinnati, in a gingerbread Victorian house overlooking the Ohio River). Ancestry: eldest of the three children (two sons, one daughter) of William Howard Taft, 26th President of the U.S. and later Chief Justice; grandson of Alphonso Taft, Secretary of War and later Attorney General in the Cabinet of Ulysses S. Grant. Educated: at his Uncle Horace's Taft School in Watertown, Conn. (1906); Yale (1910); Harvard Law School (1913). Married: in 1914 to Martha Bowers, witty, vivacious daughter of President Taft's Solicitor General Lloyd Bowers. Children: William Howard...
Private Life. He lives in Sacramento's ornate Governor's Mansion, once the boyhood home of Journalist Lincoln Steffens, now converted from an ugly relic into a gleaming legacy of the gingerbread era. He has given up golf and handball. He reads extensively on contemporary problems, dips regularly into his Bible before going to bed and first thing in the morning. His hobby and main relaxation is his lively family. Between fishing trips with his sons, horseback riding with his daughters, near-monthly birthday parties for one Warren or another, he has time for few friends, fewer intimates...
...moment later they were speeding off to a gingerbread-trimmed hotel in the village. The cameraman was indignant. "How was I to know that was the King?" he stormed to a royal aide. Shrugged the aide: "What did you expect? That he'd be wearing his crown...