Word: ornamental
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Rollin Kirby, thrice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, noted ornament of the New York World's editorial page, has found little peace since the World died, 20 years after the death of Joseph Pulitzer. Kirby found an uneasy job with the World's successor, Roy Howard's World-Telegram...
...thirteenth century Chinese pottery known as Chun and they are second to none both in quality and quantity. Some 300 examples of elaborate eighteenth and nineteenth century Chinese jades and crystal's constitute the main body of the collection. Their variety of shape, beauty of color and diversity of ornament make this group, Museum officials state, of unusual interest to art lovers and petroologists...
...many excellent photographs illustrate, the designors of the project have used varied lines and textured concrete to make the buildings more than purely industrial without resorting to mere applied ornament, and particular care has been taken so that visitors may get the best views of the works...
What Retirement does best is five attractive characterizations by its principals, with an assist from housemaid Evelyn Keyes. A holdover from the Broadway cast, elegant Isobel Elsom is a handsome ornament to the grisly drama. The others are less handsome, but just as effective-especially taut, slight, eruptive Ida Lupino, who deftly manipulates her neurotic nuances as if her nephew (Mr. Hay ward) were not her real-life husband...
Wrong were the dopesters who expected the 425 to look like hearses for lack of shiny grills and trim. Plastics have replaced zinc, chrome and steel on the Hudson's inside trim and the radiator ornament; but the outside trim, chrome last year, is stainless steel. Pistons and cylinders are still aluminum...