Word: adornment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aesthetic and artistic side of the question it is to be hoped that even New England architects can adorn a gymnasium with spacious porticos and massive columns such that the holy ones might risk a glance. Alexis de Tarnowsky...
...officers of the school should certainly admit their literary limitations and offer a prize for names. Luchre, Mammon, Rimmon, all of these are excellent. Or one could use the names of great captains of industry, Ford, Pinkham, Swift. Indeed there are all manner of delightfully apt names to adorn letter heads with. But A, B, C--really that is rather poor...
...dead had come to life again. And what a life. The whole freshman class arrives at Cambridge on one subway train, all playing ukuleles, all munching apples, according to the saddened reviewer of the Harvard CRIMSON. All the street and traffic signs in Hollywood must have been requisitioned to adorn the students rooms. California cactus hedges are interspersed among a few authentic Harvard scenes...
John D. Rockefeller, as all the world knows, plays golf. Uncomplimentary photographs of him in his golfing clothes adorn every other issue of most Sunday rotogravure sections, and these photographs have started a very silly idea. They have made people think that his golf is a joke. Whenever an old man is holding up a crowded course, putting from one side of the hole to the other, or standing bent in an interminable stance, one golfer will say to another, "Heavens, don't drive, Marjorie! That must be John D. Rockefeller." Last week Mr. Rockefeller gave answer...
...Gigli wants to adorn a slab in the morgue, let him try to sing in Detroit. We will slit his canary throat...