Word: ornament
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manufacturers at that time, according to Owen, catered to the "elegant tastes of the middle class," and developed what he calls the "horticultural school" of ornament. "Art was modernized until every common article took on the air of a tortured gas-pipe...
...General Laws, Chapter 71, secton 30, states "all the preceptors of the college, especally the unversity at Cambridge, must teach obedience, chastity, love of country, and all those virtues that are the ornament of the human society on which our republic was founded...
...Gina Kaus have written some juicy true-confession anecdotes to tell how woebegone Eleanor Parker was deceived by a marine; how News Reporter Patricia Neal abandoned her husband to gallivant around the world, and how temperamental Ruth Roman fatally bashed her betrayer over the head with a desk ornament. Of the men concerned in this welter of babies and pliant ladies, Frank Lovejoy is effective as a disenchanted husband and Ted de Corsia is all right as a philanderer's front...
...years later, in 1802, Napoleon decided to provide Paris with another ornament: a colossal statue of himself done in classical style. Paris, as it turned out, had only a relatively short time to admire it. After Waterloo, the statue caught the sardonic eye of the Duke of Wellington. Presently the statue was installed in Apsley House, London residence of the duke, where it stands to this...
After the nine sections of the carving are assembled, its base will be 44 feet long, and its center will be nine feet high. Original blueprints called for a ship in the center of the ornament, because no Business School shield then existed. But the new carving will have a shield six by five feet in the middle...