Word: ornamenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the Winter there was noted in the tangle of traffic in the New York theatre district a certain automobile radiator mounted with a sweeping pair of steer horns. Little boys, old men, actors, girls, prosperous personages stopped to gaze agape at the primitive ornament. " Must be advertisin' something" was the preliminary reaction. Closer inspection revealed that it was advertising something...
...Publisher Is Indicted for a Little Phallic Ornament...
...story of Bartholow is human matter fit for the pen of James of Meredith not unlike "Modern Love" in theme and manner but Meredith devoid of ornament. Bartholow, celebrating liberation of soul and intellect, discovers late the treachery of the liberating Raven "a resident savior domiciled", serene, a hypocrite redeemed by understanding. The woman, Gabrielle, whose tragedy is just a foil for Bartholow's reveals how superficial insincerity can stultify a spirit over-prone to casual conformity, until it dies unnourished. Like a "confidant" the other character--perhaps the post--is an incongruous philosopher who talks a Latinized American appropriate...
...thus described by American newspapers: 'A cigarette held firmly between tight lips, fire of enthusiasm in brown eyes, slim, short, brown wavy bobbed hair parted on the side like a man's, jaw stern. Rough high boots, black skirt, workman's blouse, old brown sweater, only ornament a Communist badge...
...ancient jubé, or rood screen. In olden days the jubé was a very heavy wall separating the chancel from the choir and nave, and from a tribune on top of this wall a cleric read the Gospel and Epistle. The rood screens of today serve to ornament the church rather than to separate the clergy from the laity...