Word: embellisher
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...most of one wall in a main gallery was her massive canvas called London Palladium showing an unprepossessing young woman in evening dress watching the Crazy Gang, well known London vaudeville team, from a stage box. Manager Gerald Black of the Palladium snapped it up for $6,000 to embellish his lobby...
Finding her inspiration in the facts behind the witchcraft of Salem, Miss Winwar proceeds to enlighten and embellish their horror as well as their beauty with the result that the spirit of the times is once more captured and the reader can more easily understand the forces at work to create such a reign of terror. The hatred and intolerance of the straight-laced but hypocritical Puritans with their cast iron moral codes and their frigid attitude is set in striking contrast with the loyalty, the courage, and the affection of their brothers. The narrowness and prejudice of the Puritan...
...reporting this rare case to the Lancet, Dr. East was moved to embellish his article with the following quotation from dyspeptic Alexander Pope...
...Embellish Sirs: I have had your July 10 issue in my hands for about one hour and Lord knows how I can have waited that long to write you what is in my mind and in my heart. Your front page picture [German Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Paul Joseph Goebbels] and the caption under it is an affront to to not only every Jew in the world but to every individual who loves decency and respects his fellow man. Does TIME find it necessary to go down into the gutters and slime of the world to embellish its covers...
...sorry appearance of Nanking Theological Seminary astounds the U. S. visitor who has given his mite to Chinese missions. The Seminary consists of five squat buildings on a drab 20-acre campus. Only furnishings are the scant necessities of Chinese existence. But the 46 students (all natives) embellish their lives with potted plants which they carry around the buildings as the sun moves across the heavens...