Word: garnished
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...tradition of eclecticism that the next House should be fashioned. Combining the appearance of Lamont and the forbidden city of Peking, the new House could perhaps be built as a Bauhaus Pagoda. Corridors could run in circles around a central elevator shaft, while a facing of gilded gargoyles could garnish the outside...
Acrobatic Garnish. Neither is a secondhand gagster, and both would run at the drop of a joke book. Their humor is literate, and draws more heavily on the glories of the past than the gags of the present...
...make grey-toned human beings of themselves. Most important, Lon Chaney is presented in all his frail- ties. He was a jealous, generous, obstinate, softhearted man. Seldom in Hollywood's euphemistic tributes to its own has the tribute included so many ugly realities at the expense of glamorous garnish...
...Corp. and boasting a stage show that glittered with some $10 million worth of borrowed jewelry. Some costumed lady guests were marvels to behold, but none greater than the international set's large-hearted partygiver, Elsa Maxwell, 73, bedecked with such garnish as one of the world's biggest rocks (a 337-k. sapphire) in her guise of Russia's Empress Catherine the Great. Also gone regal was Metropolitan Opera Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas, playing her greatest nonsinging role as Hatshepsut, an 18th Dynasty Queen of Egypt. Prattled Columnist Maxwell just before the ball: "Maria...
Since 1791, when the U.S. imposed the first tax on whisky, moonshiners have plied their intermittent trade in Dixie's piney woods. They still make a lively dew. At times they garnish their mash with manure to speed fermentation; occasionally a rat, hog or snake crawls into the vat, gobbles its fill dies, and floats there until the batch of moonshine is ready for the still. Sometimes the fermenting corn is tinctured with Clorox or lye to beef up its punch (moonshine is rarely more than 75 proof...