Word: adorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more. He tells other people what he wants. When he returns to his office he is as unruffled and immaculate as before. A fussy dresser, he goes in for double-breasted suits in sturdy fabrics, insists that his tailors (Bell & Co., Manhattan) put cuffs on his coat sleeves, adorn his lapels and cuffs with little raised ridges that give the suits a ribbed appearance vaguely like the belly...
...photographic establishments of Herr Professor Heinrich Hoffmann in Berlin, Munich and Vienna last week poured thousands of big & little pictures of big little Adolf Hitler, to adorn the walls of the new German subjects of Bohemia, Moravia and Memel. It is an unwritten law of Greater Germany that every household, office, factory and assembly room must show a picture of Der Führer, and Heinrich Hoffmann is Germany's official Reichsbildberichterstatter, or Photographic Reporter of the Reich...
...kept in prison but are open to the use of all without undue restrictions. We often echo the lament of Ecclesiastes, but it is only over-much study that is a weariness of the flesh. It is as true today as when Cicero said it that books adorn us in prosperity, comfort us in adversity, delight us at home and do not hinder us abroad. Time discards the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour, and the treasures remain. The field of learning widens but work becomes specialized and subdivided, and each scholar may know his part...
...wealth of new talent. The museums also have responded . . . many purchases have been made of the work of young and hitherto unknown artists. The commercial gallery has benefited greatly by this newly developed public interest in art, and last but not least ordinary people are beginning to adorn their homes with original works of art instead of the old atrocities. . . . But the WPA artist who has served the public faithfully on this great Government art program has done so under the constant threat of dismissal. . . . The nation is desperately in need of legislation which will assure the permanency of this...
...tables were perspective models of Boulder Dam and an artificially moonlit Triborough Bridge, with space reserved for a coming model of the New York Exposition of 1939. After this visitors are ready for the Wine Fountain spouting real wine but not the vintages of the famed French chateaux which adorn it in symbolic model form...