Word: gold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have no sympathy with Communists, and I have equal lack of sympathy with nincompoops. Somewhere in the Navy there must be a lot of nincompoops wearing gold braid...
...what did Frankie do while the wine of fame was flowing free? He bought a $250,000 home in Holmsby Hills, then a place in Palm Springs, for $162,000. He gave away gold Dunhill lighters ($250 apiece) by the gross. He threw champagne parties day after day. And night after night, there were the women. When Frankie came back to his hotel he almost always found some mixed-up youngster hiding under his bed or in the closet; sometimes it was not a girl but a grown-up woman. One night a well-known society belle walked...
...After gold and silver were discovered in California, Telegraph Tycoon J.W. Mackay brought in three tons of silver from the Comstock lode and had Tiffany's make it into 1,000 pieces of table silver. One day President Lincoln dropped in to pick up a strand of pearls for the First Lady. Diamond Jim Brady earned his nickname with Tiffany diamonds, and an admirer of Sarah Bernhardt ordered for her a bicycle set with diamonds and rubies. Tiffany's even made horseshoes for the thoroughbreds of Tobacco Millionaire P. Lorillard. Steelmaker Charles Schwab once strolled into Tiffany...
...opened his own factory. Most silversmiths of the day adulterated their wares with copper alloys, but Tiffany's guaranteed that all its silver was .925 pure, thus introduced into the U.S. the hallmark, "sterling silver." Not only did the Tiffany factory turn out lustrous table silver and gold filigree, but in the Civil War it made swords and rifles; in World War I it turned out surgical instruments, and in World War II aircraft parts...
...also exerted a fascinating appeal for some aristocrats' playmates. Sang Gold-Digger Lorelei, in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes...