Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...County Roscommon, Dr. Hyde's academic fame rests on his work for the revival of the Irish language as president of the Gaelic League, on his collections of Celtic folklore and on his authorship of Twisting of the Rope, first Gaelic play produced at Dublin's famed Abbey Theater...
...including U. S. Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Mr. Shaw formally accepted the deeds to the site, remarked: "I suppose you have had me here today as the next best thing to Shakespeare. It is said that people do not want a National Theatre. . . . They got the British Museum, Westminster Abbey and the National Gallery that they did not want. But now . . . they like them." Americans, Shaw continued, should help pay for Britain's cultural institutions, for "they always visit them, but we never go near them ourselves...
...Michelangelo. Serene, dynamic and a prodigious worker, stocky Sculptor Barnard admired the great Gothic and Renaissance stone-carvers, amassed the finest collection of Gothic sculpture in the U. S. Stormiest of his stormy projects was his lank, saddened figure of Lincoln, which was refused a place in Westminster Abbey in 1917, relegated to Manchester, England. For the last 20 years he had labored on his greatest dream-a 100-ft. "Rainbow Arch" sculptured with Dantesque choirs of marble figures symbolizing the power of Peace...
Honoring William Randolph Hearst for returning to the Abbey Church of La Trinité at Fécamp, France, two 16th-century stained-glass windows, identified as stolen goods after he had bought them for his countryseat at San Simeon, Calif., the Paris Intransigeant identified him as a wealthy "manufacturer of garters...
...also spent much time studying the Abbey of Cluny in Burgundy first European church to have pointed arches, tracing the origin of these arches through southern Italy to northern Africa...