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Douglas bought the paintings not for himself but to embellish the new Tucson headquarters of the Southern Arizona Bank & Trust Co., of which he is chairman of the board of directors. For the same purpose, he has also picked up two small bronzes by Charles Russell and one by Frederic Remington. Douglas believes that the collection will pay for itself by attracting and pleasing customers and visitors. Says Douglas: "It seemed to me respectable for a three-ball joint like ours to have a good collection...
...column, a new dish is seldom simply "good"; instead, when it was put before her, "a happy little moan escaped the lips." She can embellish even the fluffiest souffle with her brandied prose: "It came perfumed of the hot sugared fruit and toned with the magic of some liqueur . . . The waiter's spoon dipped in. and the souffle responded with a rapturous, half-hushed sigh as it settled softly to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream...
Since that first meeting the Association has plodded on with its work in an obvious reluctance to rush through any progressive measure. In 1850, the Proprietors voted to embellish the center plot with a statue of Columbus to balance a gift of a smuggled Florentine statue of Aristides in the Just. A committee was charged to find, "with as little delay as possible," a suitable statue. A short two years later they reported success and now the statues stand guard at each end of the green. In past days, Italians from the North End would descend once a year upon...
...George Monk" for a special announcement: "Before I begin this week's broadcast I wish to convey to my listeners the desire to obtain two statues of Virginia Revolutionary statesmen and heroes that would fit into alcoves six feet high." Behind his cryptic appeal was a plan to embellish the wall of the "Nathan Hale Court," which fronts the Tribune Building. Within the week a factory offered to make plaster statues of any historical figures the colonel cared to name, but that wouldn't do. He was after the weather-resistant kind...
...Mass. On those occasions when he noticed his own whims, he liked to embellish them with wit. A man who saw him chasing his hat through a stream of traffic joined in, caught the hat and returned it to G.K.-who promptly assured him that it should never have been rescued at all. "Then why on earth did you run after it?" "It's an old friend," G.K. explained. "I am fond of it, and I wanted to be with...