Word: adorns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attempt to create realistic reproductions of English life and the recent Coronation, the committee in charge of the Freshman Jubilee, known this year as the Coronation Ball, are planning extensive decorations which wil adorn the Union on Friday evening...
...including an intellectual indictment of atheism; and, most daringly ingenious of all, an apology spoken by the murderers in the present-day language of a prosaic politician. The familiar casuistry of this episode is really much better suited for dramatic purposes than many of the pretentious poetic flights that adorn the work, and really have to be read to be grasped...
...even Mr. Marquand meant to do that. They were merely showing them off, as one shows a most prized heirloom. George Apley, with his five-button coat, is to America as the Breton peasant woman with her super-headdress is to France; perhaps some day he too will adorn the pages of the National Geographic on the dentist's waiting-room table...
...private deck tennis court will soon adorn the area adjoining Housemaster Kenneth Murdoch's living quarters...
Long have I admired TIME'S choice of faces to adorn its covers, but pray tell what is Clark Gable's image doing on the Aug. 31 issue? He may have been the most newsworthy person in the world last week, but from the size of the article and the small mention made of him in it I judge that TIME could have found someone more interesting to greet its thousands of readers on Friday morning...