Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...living members of Battery D had taken off. Tommy Murphy was there, jaunty and sharp in a double-breasted grey suit. Eugene Donnelly wore a silk hat. Frank Spina, Harry Truman's Kansas City barber, had a new silk guidon, three times regulation size, inscribed in gold with the names of the places where Battery D had fought: the Vosges Mountains, the Meuse-Argonne, Verdun. Four sleeping cars rolled eastward...
...battery wit, announced to the President: "Now Battery D is going to give you something about as worthless as a Republican County chairman." Donnelly brought forth a package and began to unwrap it. Someone yelled: "Don't break it, you clumsy bastard." Donnelly finally pulled out a gold-headed cane which he presented to the President, who said emotionally that he would use it every morning on his walks and pass it on to his daughter. He added: "Perhaps some day she can give it to my grandson...
...painting, a 14th Century Sienese tempera of Saint Thomas the Apostle, believed the work of Simone Martini and valued at $3,000 to $5,000, had disappeared from the Museum's wall almost five years ago (TIME, April 3, 1944). The young saint in his fancy gold halo and blue-green cloak looked as serene as ever, though the panel had broken in two and a few flakes of paint had fallen...
...five-year boom that had made gold mines out of U.S. horse tracks was petering out. Back in the barns, the "hot-walkers" and exercise boys joked about it: "The suckers [race-trackese for the betting public] are running out of money." Even touting was getting tough...
...black town car built for Mrs. Alfred P. Sloan Jr., wife of G.M.'s board chairman. It has interior fittings of silver, a chauffeur's umbrella, a pearl-grey clipped sheepskin carpet, a short-wave telephone, a gold compact, and a lifetime fountain pen. Nearby was a gunmetal "hardtop" convertible designed for President Wilson and christened the Coup de Ville. Upholstered in pleated gunmetal leather, it has a telephone, pull-out desk and engraved vanity case. ("Not that I use powder," quipped Wilson...