Word: golds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Everleigh Club flourished from 1900 to 1911 in a 50-room mansion in Chicago's famed Levee. It boasted gold spittoons, silk drapes, thick rugs, expensive statuary and paintings, a gilded piano, and 40 specially made brass and marble beds. Little fountains squirted perfume into its rooms at regular intervals. Its dinners sometimes cost $100 a plate and were served on gold-edged china. Champagne arrived in golden buckets...
...some boxes of matches and a roll of cloth. Every block or so the old man climbed out of his coffin to harangue the crowd on the evils of hoarding and speculating. Inscriptions on dancing banners and placards read: "Those who hoard are public enemies," and "Who damages the gold yuan will have his head chopped...
...organizer of the procession was the man in charge of defending the new gold yuan currency in Shanghai, deputy economic controller Major General Chiang Ching-kuo, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Russian-educated elder son. A chubby, earnest man who looks much younger than his 39 years, Chiang believes in going to the people. On Tuesday and Thursday afternoons he holds open house in his office in Shanghai's Central Bank of China to hear the public's complaints...
Scouts had picked Chicago's big Civic Opera House as "the place to open in America." While they waited for the company to arrive from Montreal, Chicago's socialites and Franco-American clubs prepared a Bourbonic welcome. There would be a huge party backstage in the famous Gold Key room on opening night. And the French Embassy was sending a diplomat to make it official...
...intended for use in the Mass and, like the Mass itself, were laden with symbolic meanings. Among the best pieces on show was a crozier from Cluny representing Aaron's rod. It was crozier, blossoming bough, and serpent, all in one. The pure, bright colors, applied to the gold and copper that abounded in the region of Limoges, lay in frozen lakes between the ridges of metal and islanded gems...