Word: corinthians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Davies is to walk about two miles from their home in white marble Spasso Palace around the vast, tall-turreted Kremlin Fortress. Embassy offices are in a brand-new Soviet marble building, not in the modernistic style which used to be characteristic of Communist architecture, but an affair of Corinthian columns with acanthus-leaf capitals suggesting the First National Bank in an Ohio or Illinois city. There are not many of these new bourgeois buildings yet in Red Moscow, but they bear out in unmistakably bourgeois architecture the fact that J. Stalin & Co.- although favoring the World Revolution...
Mostly, the first Lord's official home is furnished with antiques of a quality which made them costly even when bought at auction by an astute namesake of the British Admiralty's famed Samuel Pepys. In the great hall, between gleaming white Corinthian columns, long-dead British Admirals look down from heavily encrusted frames. After running this gantlet, guests arriving for an Admiralty ball admire the graceful, branching staircase, pass on to the drawing room, its walls hung with paintings of the voyages of Captain Cook. The amazing gilded furniture is the cele brated "Fish Set" presented...
Following Order No. 1, Architect Gilbert designed a Corinthian temple, flanked by two utilitarian wings for offices, waiting rooms, conference chambers, etc. Following Order No. 2, though the building has a steel frame, its masonry walls are strong enough to support it should every steel beam rust away. Following Order No. 3, the building is almost entirely of marble...
...Country Gardens"; the "Song of India"... A direct blood transfusion between friends... We roofs beneath the lamp light... Polished brass knockers on doors of dull dwellings... The Charles river at sunset... Professor Whitehead lecturing; Professor Lake reading the Bible... The line: "Euclid alone hath looked on beauty bare." Corinthian columns actually supporting a fine entablature... Modesty, any time, any place, viewed from any angle... Feathery, faery dust... The cool kindliness of sheets; the rough make kiss of blankets... The feeling of work well done... An old Greek Vase... A young inexperienced waitress saying, "Yes, Sir"... The Yard just after dawn...
High, square and weather-beaten on a bluff above the entrance to Oyster Bay, L. I., the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club lacks the austerity of the New York Yacht Club, custodian of the America's Cup, but it has a trophy of its own which, for small-boat sailors the world over, matches the glamor of that famed receptacle. The Seawanhaka Cup, put up for international races in 1895, has been won by Canada, Scotland and Norway. Last week, a fine summer's sailing on Long Island Sound reached its climax at Seawanhaka with a three...