Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good As Gold does not do much with the far too familiar idea of good-naturedly satirizing Washington, D.C. Making fun of cliches has its points, but in this case the play settles rather tediously into the quagmire of triteness that it tries to ridicule...
Part of the answer lies in the new Houses, which will meet part of the demand for cheap housing. But will this mean that all those who want cheap rooms will flock to the new houses, resurrecting the old Gold Coast situation? We hope not. Somehow the University must find a way to spread the savings evenly through the whole House system. Yet this means that students who live in the new Houses will be paying more than their rooms are worth to subsidize the residents of other Houses, which will hardly make the new houses very attractive...
...urge to help taxpayers let off some steam and at the same time give them some consolation. I wanted the poor devils to understand that for centuries taxes have been collected, and there really is no use resisting the pain." His solution: a smiling figure with hands full of gold coins representing the taxpayer as he enters, another figure with empty palms outstretched for his departure. The city art committee decided it was just the touch of humor the taxpayers needed, unanimously voted to accept Kratz's bronze door handles, and had them in place...
Died. Belle Livingstone, ninetyish, exuberant, high-living hostess who gave a gold-faucet elegance to the era of bathtub gin as the manager of a string of high-bracket ($5 a drink for "Jersey champagne"-grape juice and ethyl alcohol) Manhattan speakeasies; in New York City. Belle maintained (in Belle of Bohemia, a wildly inventive autobiography) that she was discovered under a sunflower in Emporia, Kans. by her foster parents, married four times and spent money faster than she could inherit or divorce it. She called her saloons "salons," outfitted them with overstuffed divans because she felt too many heads...
...minutes making a conquest of Ellen, a pretty secretary, a girl who proves singularly susceptible to a combination of old jokes and rueful self-pity. But after this pleasant diversion, the will is a nasty shock. Out of the million-dollar estate, Good-Time Charlie gets only a gold watch, some books and a few bottles of wine-not much use to a man who is unemployed, $12,000 in debt, and threatened with jail because of a bad check...