Word: adorned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twelve new faces and two reappearing ones will adorn the Senate of the 84th Congress. His Veepship Alben William Barkley, 76, won back the Kentucky seat he had held for 21 years (1927-48), and Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney, 70, was elected to represent Wyoming, as he had for 18 years until the 1952 Eisenhower landslide forced him to spend two years as a Washington lawyer (one client: Owen Lattimore...
...fancy now, beneath the twilight gloom, Come, let me lead thee o'er this 'second Rome' . . . This embryo capital, where fancy sees Squares in morasses, obelisks in trees; Which second-sighted seers e-v'n now adorn With shrines unbuilt and heroes yet unborn Though naught but woods and Jefferson they see, Where streets should run and sages ought...
With my Bulletin today I received a shock. Gone was the lively cover that used to adorn it. In its place, a format which could just as well be taken over with little change by the undertaker's association. From now on I shall be ashamed to show the Bulletin to my non-Harvard friends. Princeton has its orange and black, Yale its blue. Well, what the h... has happened to Harvard's Crimson...
...sound, and the people are not overdrawn. In his chronicle of one woman, Playwright Funt is examining a citified, slick, aware, pedigreed-dog-eat-dog way of life. It needs more vibrantly expressive treatment in stage form; yet it rings truer, even as it stands, than most things that adorn the Broadway stage...
...started out as editor of the paper when it was founded in 1924 and now also holds a seat in the Italian Senate, and Amerigo Terenzi, 45, chief executive officer, promotion and business manager, whose office is filled with the same circulation pie charts and graphs that adorn the walls of any other publisher. Present devotion to the party rather than past political history is a first requisite for a job, e.g., Milan Editor Davide Lajolo was a topflight Fascist newsman who fought on the side of Mussolini's Blackshirts in Spain before returning to Communism. The staff...