Word: adorning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...16th century Dutch architecture would blend well with the Gold Coast surroundings, Wheelwright hoped to design a Flemish castle in miniature. Once the plans were approved, he sailed to Holland, and traveling through the canals by tugboat, spent two years gathering the antiques and curios that were later to adorn the walls of 44 Bow Street. The building was at last completed at a cost of only...
...Association of Louisburg Residents who own the Square has struggled with a slow infiltration of moderninity from the quicker-moving surrounding streets. The first house was built in the Square in 1834, and a scant ten years later, the Association held its first annual meeting to "enlarge and adorn the said Square for the material andvantage and enjoyment of said Parties." For that first meeting there were seven Proprietors, the number swelling since then to twenty...
...precinct worker in his native California, rose to be counsel to the treasurer of the national committee in 1944-46, organizer and treasurer of the national Truman-Barkley Club in 1948. Often called "Judge Mayock," he explains that the title is a "phony," conferred by friends who wanted to "adorn a person of no importance...
...Another Hollywood." It was too much for 1,500 devout Greeks who call themselves Followers of St. John the Baptist and St. Athanasius. Cried their leader, Father Augustinios Kantiniotis: "Public scandals are being prepared . . . exhibitions of naked bodies . . . Paul the Apostle wrote that Christian women should 'adorn themselves in modest apparel,' but the organizers of these orgies say, 'Don't listen to Paul . . . undress yourselves . . . and become known as Miss Universe!' Greeks, war veterans, mothers and fathers, shout, 'Down with these orgies!' . . . and, with the help of Jesus Christ, we will prevent Greece...
After the long winter, successful crews add trophies to the collection accrued in the varsity lounge, where the awards won at Henley, England and Red Top at Yale are carefully preserved. Banners and cups adorn the room, and old crew members returning to the lounge may look through scrap books for stories of their younger, more heroic days. Each spring, visiting crews also redecorate the boat house; some of them specialize in painting a huge "Y" on the front piazza, others prefer "M.I.T...