Word: adornment
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cambridge" receives due attention. Under the guise of inviting us to Satanism and its forbidden fruits, the writer gets in some stout work in behalf of the Anglo-Catholic position in matters ecclesiastical, and conveys certain, prosy information as to the local status of that denomination, which might adorn any church year book. Appleton Chapel is dismissed as a "sad memorial, to the dry bones of New England Liberalism." So be it. I preach there occasionally. Who am I to question it? But I can subscribe whole heartedly to the statement that "the most deeply religious element of the services...
...splendid feeling for the fitness of things inspires that ever growing class of intellectuals who adorn the backs of their slickers with wholesome sentiments of tender passion. And how the boys are learning to draw, too: fine big letters, girls' names, and even an occasional picture bring back sweet memories of rainy days at High School. It hurt a man awfully to have to stop ornamenting his slicker when he came East from Wide-Wide Plains, Kansas, and some even wandered as far as New Jersey so that they could continue this normal practice...
...politicians are not concerned with independence, for the advocacy of it gains their ends; and to achieve independence would deprive them of their easiest road to office. So they play with the independence idea and, with a true gift for the dramatic, dress it in a thousand garbs and adorn it with a thousand gestures. Now they squabble with the Governor General; now they send themselves a-junketing to Washington; always they play with the 1,000,000 peso "Independence Fund" voted annually by the legislature, from which they replenish their pockets without rendering account. This year for Christmas they...
...There is no need to point to the moral or to adorn the tale. Again, one man, one individual has nullified the deliberately expressed will of 50,000 voters who had written a virtually new chapter in American political initiative in meeting the extraordinary requirements of the California electoral law. In one day, each of these 50,000 persons affixed his signature thirteen times to the petition to place Independent Progressive electors on the ballot. This action of the electorate one judge out of seven how declares null and void. Fortunately, while the will of the people has been thwarted...
...Manhattan, Miss Marina Hoffman finished an heroic group, two figures, representing England and the U. S., to adorn the facade of Bush House* in London. The statues, when erected in stone, will be twelve feet high. Each figure rests his arms on a shield bearing the coat-of-arms of his country. England's attitude is one of authority and experience, America's is that of a young athlete, keen, ready...