Word: adorned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. José Maria Sert, 69, muralist in the grandiose manner (his best known works adorn the League of Nations council chamber, the main lobby of Manhattan's RCA Building, the Waldorf-Astoria Sert Room); in Barcelona...
What the heck is an Old School Tie? Is it the "tie that binds" type of tie, or something to adorn a gentleman's neck? I take it that an Old School Tie is something to be worn by graduates of English schools, . . . but whether every graduate wears the same kind or whether the members of one club wear one kind of a tie and those of another club, another. ... I have no idea...
...more-than-filial admiration of Pulitzer Sr. and all he stood for. Each year, on the anniversary of the elder Pulitzer's death, presses stop and lights go out for one minute. Busts of the Hungarian immigrant boy who became one of journalism's greats adorn the P-D building. And the platform that Pulitzer Sr. wrote is repeated each day atop the editorial page: "Always fight demagogues of all parties . . . never be satisfied with merely printing news . .. . never be afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty...
...regrets about the passing of the building were expressed, although Gerald L. K. Maslon '45, chairman of the almost published '45 Senior Album, mourned the destruction of the Holabird murals which adorn the Album offices...
...hours of handsome, earnest inadequacy, which comes to life only by fits & starts-most memorably in the performances of Hume Cronyn, Agnes Moorhead, Steve Geray. A free use of stream-of-consciousness dialogue and of comment by the ghost of one of the escapers, to point the moral and adorn the tale, succeeds only in diluting both, far more regrettably than the old came-the-dawn subtitles used...