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Bold faced, with a hyphen and ending in the adjectival -ed, was coined by Shake speare in Henry VI, Part I, when Lord Talbot, rescuing his son on a French battlefield, spoke of his "proud desire of bold-faced Victorie". It was picked up in the 19th century by typesetters to describe a type-like Clarendon, Antique or a thick version of Bodoni--that stood out confidently, even impudently, from the page. The adjective was used in an 1880 article in The New York Times (we were hyphenated then): "One of the handbills" distributed by the Ku Klux Klan, noted, a disapproving reporter, was "printed in bold-faced type on yellow paper".
Newspaper gossip columnists in the 30’s, to catch the reader’s eye, began using this bold type for the names that made news in what was then called "cafe society" (in contrast to "high" society, whose members claimed to prefer to stay out of those columns).
In
A. the doings of celebrities.
B. the doings of media biggies, fashion plates.
C. the doings of show-biz stars, haut-monde notables, perennial personages.
D. all of the above.
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Bold faced, with a hyphen and ending in the adjectival -ed, was coined by Shake speare in Henry VI, Part I, when Lord Talbot, rescuing his son on a French battlefield, spoke of his "proud desire of bold-faced Victorie". It was picked up in the 19th century by typesetters to describe a type-like Clarendon, Antique or a thick version of Bodoni--that stood out confidently, even impudently, from the page. The adjective was used in an 1880 article in The New York Times (we were hyphenated then): "One of the handbills" distributed by the Ku Klux Klan, noted, a disapproving reporter, was "printed in bold-faced type on yellow paper".
Newspaper gossip columnists in the 30’s, to catch the reader’s eye, began using this bold type for the names that made news in what was then called "cafe society" (in contrast to "high" society, whose members claimed to prefer to stay out of those columns).
In
A. famous human faces.
B. famous, rich and celebrated people.
C. overheated parties.
D. social column.
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Wal-Mart is now mounting a bold expansion that could double its sales within just five years, to $ 480 billion. Some of that growth will come in new markets outside the U. S. , where 1,200 stores in nine countries already account for about 16% of the chain’s total sales. But even more growth will be won as the chain insinuates itself into more U.S. neighborhoods and invades more product categories.
If you think Wal-Mart already sells just about everything, think again. Think PCs, ceiling fans, more fashionable clothing, gasoline and even cars. "Their goal is to have a 30% share of every major business they arc in," says Linda Kristiansen, a retail analyst for UBS Warburg Equity Research. If there’s no Wal-Mart store near you, just wait. If you shop at Wal-Mart, expect your store to get bigger or a new store to open even closer. The chain plans to expand from 3,400 U. S. locations to day-half of them in the South--to a nationwide
A. To show the importance of these three cities.
B. Because Wal-Mart has been successful in these cities.
C. Because these cities have great potential.
D. Because these cities represent the whole world market.
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