Word: adornment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which governs Greece (TIME, Jan. 11). He has dissolved Parliament, suppressed newspapers unfavorable to him, raised a forced loan (TIME, Feb. 1), and generally conducted himself with the arbitrariness of a Napoleon, without exhibiting the Corsican's personal charm. He is General Theodore Pangalos. He is said habitually to adorn his commands with the oaths of a drill sergeant. Last week he ripped out several terse orders. Promptly 15 Greek officers and politicians were marched aboard a ship and departed into exile. Pangalos barked again and all citizens were ordered to deliver up whatever "military" firearms they possessed, within...
...respect only has the veteran vehicle been changed. In place of the fashionable figures of personified speed which adorn the radiator caps of modern automobiles, the new owner with a sense of the appropriate has chosen for his motif a large silver snail with a minature Rip Van Winkle astride his back...
...have to admit that the place for a ribbon is around a candy box or the head of a child. Therefore these colored bits of happiness which adorn some of the more collegiate headgear around the Square ought to make you just excited as I, for compared to them most of the other affectations of the parvenues pale into insignificance...
Sims-not the Rear Admiral whose likenesses adorn the cover of this magazine, nor the Seattle lumberman whose name may be remembered*-but Charles Sims, R. A., portrait painter of smart repute in England, exhibited last week at the Knoedler Galleries, Manhattan...
...soiled minds. They marshal their pornography under a variety of shams: some affecting the disguise of wit, some the imposture of art. The wit is usually flaccid filth which lacks the forthright virtues of true ribaldry; the art similar to the crude but spirited masterpieces with which anonymous Raphaels adorn the walls of railroad stations...