Word: ornamentations
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...House. Though the boy was obliged to spend his days clerking in his father's law firm, he spent his nights charming London's nobs and snobs and captivating its kept women. His companions ranged from "Blasted Bet" Wilkinson, a "sad profligate girl" who was an ornament of Wetherby's, an inn where Hickey watched a battle between two half-naked women (he did not approve), to "Silver Tail," whore-in-residence at a sporting tavern, and Fanny Temple, the jeweled mistress of an elderly townsman...
...Soviet's annual New Year's bash in the Kremlin, convivial Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, 27, buttonholed the ornament of the U.S. embassy, vivacious Jane Thompson, 41, and proposed, "How would you like to go into orbit with me?" Responded the lissome wife of Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson: "Why, I'd be frightened to death. Besides," she added smoothly, "I'm not in training...
Walpole's letters are as steeped in temperament as they are crammed with information: from an enjoyable ambivalence of attitude, Walpole must mock what he delighted in, satirize what he succumbed to, and make plain that in chronicling society, a monocle is no mere class ornament but an actual sharpener of sight...
Author Fielding is bent on proving that it is better to have loved and lost, like John, than always to win, like David. A handsome, if somewhat tarnished ornament of the Anglican clergy, David believes in the laying on of hands, at least with female communicants. But David's way is strewn with obstacles, the most formidable of which is his Godfearing, hot-tempered mother, who tries to purge him of lechery through prayer, threats, and maternal tantrums. David's sin is diagnosed by a saintly monk as a "fear of fear." In the end, what finishes David...
...invention, a kind of bargain Taj Mahal is already infiltrating contemporary architecture as portents of failure." Chief practitioner of this kind of architecture, says Rudofsky, is Edward D. Stone, famed for the neo-Moorish latticework walls he wraps around his buildings: "He throws in a veil of mechanical ornament, a smokescreen of stone, so that you can't see the structure behind...