Word: adorn
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When the American history painter John Trumbull was paid $32,000 for the four scenes of the American Revolution, including the Declaration of Independence (1818), that adorn the rotunda of the Capitol in Washington, a loud outcry arose against their cost. But does anyone alive today think it was wrong to spend public money on jump-starting the Library of Congress with Jefferson's 6,500 books or creating America's first monumental paintings of its own history? Was Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration, which gave jobs to numerous good American artists in the Depression years, a bad idea...
...description for pharaohs. One of their primary duties was to make sure the gods were properly thanked for their continuing bounty and protection (and begged for them when they were in short supply). The accepted way to do that was to erect plenty of heroic structures-and then to adorn them with detailed records of the pharaoh's good and dutiful works. Says Kenneth Kitchen, professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool and the author of an authoritative book on Ramesses II: "He was determined to do this better than anyone else...
...place to work!" Sammy told me. Well, of course it is, Sammy! The store increases its outward appeal by the many creative signs that adorn its walls. "priced right!" "Compare and Save!" Sale signs abound, as do 2-for-1 deals...
Looking around at her quiet Cambridge apartment where vases of flowers adorn most tables, she remembers her 1969 Harvard room, which didn't feel as peaceful...
...going. She responds that she intended to buy a ribbon, but doesn't have sufficient funds. He offers to purchase it for her with the ominous phrase, "Pay me back if you don't sleep with me." In a touch reminiscent of The Scarlet Letter, she then proceeds to adorn her hair with a red ribbon, suffusing with symbolic shame her formerly pristine attire. Although this connection is played up in the movie, the emotional state of the horse, at this and later points, something Zola describes with painstaking precision in his book, is lost...