Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to face up to some practical political problems. One of them was created by Douglas MacArthur's position. As a General of the Army on active service, he was screened by Army regulations, which forbid his making political speeches or engaging in any political activity. His gold-braided cap was not actually in the ring at all, but at its edge. He could pull it out at any time-as he had, in effect, after running second to Tom Dewey in Wisconsin's 1944 primary. Even more important was the fact that General MacArthur has not been...
...wiseacre comes along and combs his beard with his hand and says: 'Children, neither to the right nor to the left: the golden middle way.' This man with the beard has no outlook of his own. The right and the left have their definite opinions; the tactical gold-seeker slips or creeps in between them. He needs the radical oppositions so that he can skip to and fro. . . . The modern era . . . is the age of permanent revolutions. Reaction itself is a form of revolution . . . whence the high comedy of the golden middle path...
...Pope Pius was at his summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo, deep in the Alban Hills. Beneath his long hand on the light walnut desk lay the morning's mail, with all the envelopes personally addressed to the Pope still unopened. Many begging letters Pius XII marked with a gold pencil, so that help should be sent immediately. Then he came to a letter from an industrialist who complained of the excessively high commissions charged by the Vatican for personal loans of $450,000 and 90,000,000 lire; he mentioned interest rates as high as 45%. Incredulous, the Pope...
...Paris was that of a fiercely republican poor boy. When the July revolution of 1830 toppled Charles X from the throne, Daumier was a hopeful 22; Louis-Philippe, the compromise "Pear-King," soon blasted his hopes. He caricatured the umbrella-toting King as a Gargantua being stuffed with gold by dutiful midgets. Gargantua was displeased, but Daumier got off with a suspended sentence. In 1832 he tried his hand at a cartoon in which the King's ministers appeared as washerwomen. That one cost him six months in jail...
...admiring and envious member of her own profession. This week her work also won her the Overseas Press Club's award for the best interpretive foreign correspondence of 1947. When she returns to the U.S. this week, she will add the award (a sheepskin citation and a gold watch) to an assortment of trophies that includes the first major Pulitzer Prize (1937) ever awarded a woman journalist...