Mark Twain called it the gilded age.

And that bed like a gilded rowboat.

Back in your gilded cage, Melanie Daniels.

And so maybe I'll build a gilded cage.

You've just spent 10 years in gilded mediocrity.

A Louis Quinze carved and gilded lit de repos.

Or find something better, you gilded pimp! What a brute!

A glimpse of our so called 'gilded cage', a stereotypical word, portraying fantasy world.

More than a century ago, during the first Gilded Age, American politics was sharply polarized as well.

It became a gilded gateway into a world full of pirates and shipwrecks and images in my imagination.

The Gilded Age and legacy During the Gilded Age, there was substantial growth in population in the United States and extravagant displays of wealth and excess of America's upper class during the post Civil War and post Reconstruction era, in the late 19th century.

While Grillo s supporters may ignite fireworks in protest of these gilded giveaways for a few months, a consistent assault leading to genuine reform seems doubtful.

In the late 1800 s, America had its Gilded Age, with the creation of large new industries by the era s robber barons accompanied by massive inequality and corruption.

The greed and corruption of that era were satirized in 1873 by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their book The Gilded Age A Tale of Today.

The 19th century saw the infusion of the wealthiest Americans in the so called Gold Coast of the North Shore, where wealthy Americans and Europeans in the Gilded Age built lavish country homes.

But prospects for political reform do not inspire optimism. While Grillo s supporters may ignite fireworks in protest of these gilded giveaways for a few months, a consistent assault leading to genuine reform seems doubtful.

The cash haul has reopened the question that arose in 1999 Was China behind Dorje s flight to India, or is he a genuine defector who simply got fed up with living in a gilded Chinese cage?

So right now, I'm painting Gilda, the Gilded Skeleton, actually the golden skeleton that we're going to use in the Dow Chemical Lecture in London at a financial services conference in just a few short days.

Last week, addressing a gilded ballroom packed with the elite of Argentina s business community, Kicillof explained the government s policies as a real world application of Keynesian theories. In an hour long speech, he made two key points.

Is the current gilded era of financial triumphalism over? There is talk in many countries, even the US, that the time has come to ensure that the entire financial system, including hedge funds and investment banks, become subject to much stricter regulation.