Word: adorned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Father Wilson tosses out a few hints on how penitents can make themselves less tedious to priests:* 1) don't adorn the tale ("Not a few people think that they will be wasting the priest's time, as well as disappointing the poor man, if they are unable to tell him something that will make him sit up and whistle. Supreme optimists!"); 2) in confessing sins of impurity, no gratuitously graphic details, please; 3) "don't say, 'perhaps I was uncharitable . . . perhaps I told lies. . . .' Did you or didn...
...took place at the "Tokyo Correspondents' Club" at No. 1 Shimbun Alley, the official billet for foreign correspondents. Hoberecht got most of its residents, and even its houseboys, between his covers. Added attraction: some sensuous illustrations by Artist Tsuguharu Fujita, billed as the first kissing scenes ever to adorn a Japanese novel. Since Japanese are unaccustomed to Western-style embraces, Hoberecht went into what he calls "great, quivering detail." (To one hot-blooded chapter the publishers added a solemn subtitle: The Ethics of Kissing) Last week, as his royalties piled up from Tokyo Romance...
Sponsoring a mammoth masquerade ball Thursday night, the Hotel Commander offers College students a bevy of real live pumpkins to adorn their broomsticks in celebration of Halloween...
Spiral v. Corkscrew. Keeping editors from one Tomorrow to the next had been a continuing problem. There was, for example, the matter of the ascending spiral which curls across each month's cover. It was one of Mrs. Garrett's pet ideas. She also uses it to adorn the books of the Creative Age Press, a profitable publishing firm she owns. On this month's Tomorrow cover the spiral-which to her signifies the universal urge of beanstalks, nebulae and people to strive onward & upward-was all but invisible. John Richmond, the editor who diminished...
...female models were usually anonymous, but they became equally famous. He posed them by the sea or in bed -with snapshot casualness-and etched them in scratchy fishnets of sunlight or lamplight. Zorn's shy nudes found their way into the portfolios of print connoisseurs, and still adorn the paneled shadows of many a club...