Word: ornamented
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...daily journal unless the literature of a day's performance satisfies his ambition. The key note of the whole article is struck in the concluding sentences,- "Study, line distinction, the perfection of form, the fittest phrase, the labor limoe and the purgation from immaterialities of ornament or fac, and the putting of what we ought to say in the purest, simplest, and permanent form, - these are what our literature must have, and these are not qualities to be cultivated on the daily press. Of no pursuit can it be said more justly than of literature, that 'culture corrects the theory...
FOUND.- An ornament of oxidized silver: either a sleeve button or a "charm" for watch guard. Probably lost at my house on Tuesday evening, December...