Word: ornamentations
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...Constantine I to the killing of the last Constantine by his Moslem conquerors in 1453. Throughout those dark ages Byzantium had blazed, fitfully bright, as the half-classical, half-oriental capital of pagan and Christian art alike. Baltimore's entire exhibition would have been barely enough to ornament a single villa for a favorite courtesan of the 9th Century Emperor Theophilus. In a day when Rome was a vast ruin, and Paris and London mud-walled towns, Theophilus was tearing down palaces in Byzantium (which Constantine I had renamed Constantinople) simply for the fun of planning new and better...
...sometimes claimed reward money for remains which were not those of U.S. soldiers. Most graves were found through the patient questioning of local natives. One body was traced through the discovery of a short-snorter bill, another after quizzing a woman who wore an identification disk as an ornament, several through coolies who were found wearing shirts of parachute nylon...
...stone slab atop the church has long been pointed out by drivers of sightseeing buses as the tomb of a rich parishioner who had a mortal fear of worms. Actually it is only an ornament...
...girl spat at a tall Maryland Colonel as we jeeped through the debris-littered streets of this town," reported Will Lang, at the front with the Ninth Army. "Other Germans peeked furtively from behind the crocheted curtains that ornament the workers' windows...
Tall, gangling Lawrence K. Whipp, 52, was an impeccable ornament of Paris' prewar American colony. He was rather aloof, deeply religious. For 20 years he was organist, choirmaster and lay reader at the Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, the Protestant Episcopal Church's mainstay in France and a pillar of the American colony's social façade. Last week the whereabouts of Larry Whipp were a baffling mystery, and friends in Paris were combing his record for clues...