Word: attics
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...cheek bones. This tendency is not carried far, however. Thus the early years of the fourth century is the period to which this head may be assigned while the shape of the skull, with its strongly curved outline and slightly tapering face, points to a master of the Attic school...
...Fourth Century Sculpture: The Attic Grave Monuments." Professor Chase, Fogg Large Room...
...exhibit opened with a reception at which platters of sweetmeats and little cups of Turkish coffee were handed round by Miss Angela Mulinos, an Attic beauty who was "Miss Greece" at the 1930 Galveston International. Speeches were made by Professor Demetrios Tselos of Princeton, Vice Consul Konstantine Konstandas. The guest of honor (who was unfortunately unable to be there because of a pressing engagement to wrestle in Toronto) was lion-chested Christopher Theophilus, more widely known as Jim Londos, world's heavyweight wrestling champion. High above the clink of coffee cups sounded the praises of Greek artists, poets, professors...
...comprise the most famous and the most successful of Shakespearian forgeries, and include both letters which purported to be in his handwriting and pages of the manuscripts of his plays. The author of the forgeries, William Henry Ireland, published them in 1796, claiming to have discovered them in his attic. For a while the forgeries were accepted as authentic by leading authorities to whom Ireland submitted them for examination, but eventually pressure upon the author became so strong that he published a full confession, thereby gaining both notoriety and fortune...
...buildings that with common efficiency would carry out the functions for which they were intended. Under the Yale hand, a chemistry laboratory became a Hampton Court palace; a gymnasium became a Norman Cathedral, well fortified from all access of light; fraternity houses and senior-society tombs were built as Attic temples, Saracenic strongholds. Tudor mansions, Venetian palaces, and sacred edifices of the classical revival. Every minor building became other-wordly, enchanting in its antique quaintness, its cumbersome and happy extravagance. The donors were tickled by the splendor, hardened business men felt holy when erecting imitation abbeys to their own memory...