Word: ornamental
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Before the war in Italy rolled north to Monte Cassino, the chief ornament of the monastery's Chapel of the Assumption was a handsome altarpiece of the Virgin. Then the ancient monastery threatened to become a defensive keystone for the Germans, and U.S. bombers leveled it.*The painting, by 17th-Century Paolo de Matteis, disappeared amid the rubble. Officially it was written off as a lost art treasure...
SCHOENHOF'S is featuring the calendar at $1.50, along with other Swiss imported calendars at their 1280 Massachusetts Avenue store. All are strongly mounted to make a handsome desktop ornament...
SCHOENHOF'S is featuring the calendar at $1.50, along with other Swiss imported calendars at their 1280 Massachusetts Avenue store. All are strongly mounted to make a handsome desktop ornament...
SCHOENHOF'S is featuring the calendar at $1.50, along with other Swiss imported calendars at their 1280 Massachusetts Avenue store. All are strongly mounted to make a handsome desktop ornament...
...Mercedes (Germany): the oldest car in the show. Drexler called it "an amusingly solemn piece of stagecraft" with "a necklace of lights, bumpers, straps, horns-and handles, undecorated but nevertheless expressively decorative, as were the caps and goggles which used to ornament the serious motorist...