Word: ornamentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...plushy Victorian architecture variously known as jigsaw, gingerbread or General Grant, is the mammoth, decaying, 917-room United States Hotel at Saratoga Springs, N.Y.* Two years ago, the old "States" foundered in white-elephantine failure, closed its doors forever. Last week the entire furnishings of this ornament of an age went on the auction block. It was a great day for the fanciers...