Word: adorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood has been untiring in its efforts to drive home the moral object-lesson that a female member of the social register may possibly be no "lady" at all, and that a girl of low extraction quite often possesses those qualities which are said to adorn the true gentlewoman. It is some time before Ian Hunter, after waking up to find himself the husband of Bette Davis, realizes that he has a jewel. Old friends seek to draw him away, and there is the lure of the gilded siren, whose marriage to another has not, it appears, diminished her affection...
...entire collection for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fortnight ago came news of more Rockefeller munificence: a gift of $2,500,000 to build a complete Romanesque abbey for the collection and The Hunt of the Unicorn, a $1,100,000 set of 18th Century tapestries to adorn...
Among the short features which adorn the bill are an excellent travelogue about the little Dutch province of Zeeland, and a Walt Disney animated cartoon depicting the animadventures of "The Hare and the Tortoise...
...since the Group Theatre began producing its blood-&-thunder Red melodramas. Spectators get to hoping desperately that in the general gunplay, Duke Mantee (able Humphrey Bogart in a stubble beard) will somehow forget to shoot Actor Howard, who has turned in another of his fragile, impressively assured impersonations to adorn a notable career. But everyone must know his jig is up when he tells Actress Conklin: "We'll be together always-in a funny sort...
...animals, sheltered within its portals. Another Freshman Class of a thousand men will make small impression on the ceaseless tide. It will disappear under the dormitories in the Yard to show its head only at required intervals when it must produce study-cards or fill out House applications to adorn crowded files. Twice a year its members will receive grades from the august Faculty which wields in this light way its powers of honors and probation. University Hall, where the deans hold their desperate feasts, is only a step from one's quarters but yards of red tape stretch from...