Word: ornamentations
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...Ornament...
...Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, a dynamite cap which Rosette La Haye, 19, had used as an ornament on the tip of her pencil for a year, exploded, blew off three of her fingers, injured...
Last week colleagues of that Philadelphia ornament of the profession. Dr. Chevalier Jackson, disclosed that by means of his esophagoscope he has developed an efficacious technique for closing such pouches in honest man or thief at one sitting...
...three: emphasis upon volume--space enclosed by thin planes or surfaces as opposed to the suggestion of mass and solidity; regularity as opposed to symmetry or other kinds of obvious balance; and, lastly, dependence upon the intrinsic elegance of materials, technical perfection, and fine proportions, as opposed to applied ornament...
...International Style as opposed to "modernist" architecture eschews all decoration and ornament. "Functionalism" (a word overworked ad nauseam) is its watchword. Such beauty as their buildings possess is dependent on fine proportion of individual units, clever use of color, and the technically perfect use of materials. (Cement is sometimes poured in glass-lined forms to give it a marble-like polish.) Light is its fetish. Houses look more and more like aquariums. The four apostles of the International Style are two Germans, a Dutchman and a French Swiss, as follows...