Word: adorning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surly Roman stonemasons spent the week in "dressing" with colossal fig leaves 70 nude statues of young men, each in an athletic attitude and all some 25 ft. tall. Pope Pius XI was said by Fascist officials to have suggested the fig leaves, since the 70 virile statues adorn the upper rim of a new Roman Stadium which will be used not only by Italian sportsmen but also by Italian sportswomen. To open the stadium on Italy's Armistice Day last week, Il Duce approached with quick strides a monstrous object 55 ft. tall, swathed in bunting and sprouting...
...first act was to clean up the paper. Still blatantly sensational, the Graphic no longer flaunts sexy news stories and headlines. Reports of extra-marital philandering, except as matters of court record, are eschewed. Forbidden are headlines not definitely substantiated by stories. Near-nudes which used to adorn the front page of the Saturday gravure have been supplanted by chaste heads-&-shoulders-in a recent issue those of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Composographs (faked pictures) are permanently outlawed. Photographs of dead bodies must not be "horrible." Fiction serials are still as sexy as those of the average tabloid. Sample title...
...noisiest-hard, galvanic, rasping-as if Composer Chavez were trying to make up for having allowed his tropical dancers a comparatively pleasant tango. A cultural renaissance is having its start in obsidian Mexico. Rivera represents the painter's side. His frescoes all about Mexicans have been chosen to adorn governmental walls in Mexico City. Composer Chavez, director of the National Conservatory of Music and of Mexico City's leading symphony orchestra, heads the group trying now to develop an authentic Mexican music from purely native sources. In his own music Chavez makes the winds of the modern orchestra...
...decoration as well as illustration, the French cuts are perhaps the best in the sixteenth century. Decorative borders frequently adorn the page and cuts and text unite to form a more complete whole than in other countries, due perhaps to the influence of Geoffrey Tory. A large number of books shown are French. Among the most interesting may be mentioned "Entree ... Henri II ... en la ville ... de Paris", Paris, 1549, containing a fine equestrian portrait by Jean Goujon; Aesop, "Les Fables", Paris, 1542, a unique first edition; Homer, Les Dix Premiers Livres de I'lliade", Paris, 1545; Ovid, La Metamorphose...
...Harkness and Mr. Duke passed by on the other side, as far as Piedmont College in George is concerned. No heraldic crests adorn the converted livery stable which serves as its recitation hall or the regenerated Chautauqua hall which is its chapel. Professor's get part of their meagre salaries in the form of peaches, potatoes, hams, or firewood from the college farm, and a complicated system of barter enables a farmer to pay his son's bill with so many quarts worth of tuition...