Word: embellishments
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...found under every orange tree, so Carmen said yes. The night before the banns were posted, Jose and Concepción told her what they knew about her birth. They repeated the nun's remark about her being "a real marquesita" and the young bride began to embellish her grey life with daydreams about a romantic past...
Olmsted foresaw that the "town" would soon surround his creation, installed four cross-park driveways. A touch of inspiration led him to sink the driveways below ground-level and thus preserve the park's visual harmony. Fighting off the people who wanted to embellish the park with opera houses, race tracks, cathedrals and fire stations was more difficult but almost as successful. Today, the one notable encroacher on the park's priceless real estate is the Metropolitan Museum...
...bade his classmates "Hall and Farewell!"). . . . In difficult matters and critical times, let us remember to keep a balanced mind; let us be on our guard unremittingly; let us never be afraid . . . as Cicero once said in his defence of the poet Archias, "nourish youth, delight old age, embellish prosperous times, afford a haven and solace in adverse times, give pleasure at home, do not hinder abroad, spend the night with us, travel about with us, live in the country with...
Partly to prove that modern art has a place in churches, France's Father Pierre Couturier twelve years ago began commissioning the best and most extreme moderns he could find to embellish a church at Assy, high in the French Alps. The project has made Assy internationally famous (TIME, June 20, 1949). The church, with all its art works, was consecrated last year by Bishop Auguste Cesbron of Annecy. Last week the bishop had changed his mind about one sculpture...
...Daily News writer wrote his tutoring school story after visiting the school's office under the pretence of needing a geology theme written. The theme he received earned him a 42 but the tutoring school claims the writer, Andrew Patten, failed to embellish properly on what was only an outline...