Word: ornamentations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second look at work saved over from the night before. At 7:30 he showers and dresses, usually in grey gabardine or white linen, a silk tie with a gold clasp, grey suede shoes. Soon he is sitting at a cluttered desk in a smallish office conspicuously free of ornament...
...those unique masterpieces which must be done perfectly if it is to be done at all. Handel created the music in 24 days of concentrated effort. Every phrase plays a key part in the whole; each line is at once a beautiful thing in itself and an ornament to the rest. If even the second violins play sloppily, an excellent chorus cannot atone; if a recitative is hurried, a perfectly paced aria becomes pointless. The grandeur of Handel, like the glory of Bach, cannot rest on Yuletide spirit alone...
Stormy Weather. In Wichita, when Robert Steven refused to push a stalled car from a flooded intersection for fear his own auto would stall, eight angry men piled out, ripped the hood ornament off Steven's auto and poured water on the back seat...
...Leverett family memoir heralds the appointment in a manner typical of the time: "In the zenith of his fame and popularity . . . Judge 'Leverett was elected to the presidency of Harvard College-the cherished seat of learning of the country and the pride and ornament of New England...
Said the headline on a two-page ad in The New Yorker last week: I AM SENDING MY SON TO GROTON WITH THE MONEY I HAVE SAVED DRIVING AUSTINS. The ad quoted a "private letter from [an] anonymous diplomat . . . who used to ornament the Diplomatic Corps," and pictured a man in riding boots, presumably the anonymous diplomat, with 1) a woman, 2) a boy (presumably the lucky Grottie) and 3) a pair of Austin cars...