Word: corinthians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...visitor to this, the world's richest university, can hardly escape a visit to the library, famed as the largest on the planet belonging to an educational institution. He necessarily expects great splendor, nor is he disappointed. A three-story Corinthian facade is a satisfactory glory for introduction. Within, a double marble stairway and murals by Sargent are also sufficiently impressive. Shakespearean folios and holographs of Keats, along with original Spectator papers, provide an atmosphere of gentility. Tingling with anticipation, the sightseer passes from these treasures into the dingy depths of the reading-room...
Syria. Five miles from Antioch, a peasant scouring the countryside for building materials came upon the marble capitals of two Corinthian columns. Before Wellesley's Professor William Alexander Campbell, backed by three museums and one university, reached the spot, the peasant had smashed up his find. But Digger Campbell went ahead to unearth greater treasures: a Greek theatre with an 80-ft. stage which inscriptions indicated was built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, a life-size alabaster statue, probably of Hadrian, and a villa with remarkable mosaic floors. One design, composed of glass cubes tinted in pastel shades, showed...
...years later Bardstown became the seat of a Catholic diocese which included Kentucky and Tennessee. Father Flaget, as Bishop, consecrated there the first Catholic Cathedral west of the Alleghenies. Corinthian columns were hewn from nearby forests and the interior was done in rich walnut...
That Cod was the pilgrim's pride. It was Commerce. It gave its name to local Aristocracy. It never shivered its timbers in generations of debate. Not New England rum in its prime was dearer or more venerated. For the last thirty-eight years it rested easily on wires. Corinthian columns were near it. Above it were illustrious names, such as Parkman, Motley. Beneath it, of late, has been Speaker Saltonstall. So fortunate a fish wouldn't have swum away of itself. Somebody from the gallery prigged it on Wednesday. The ingenious Cantabrigians of The Lampoon and The CRIMSON were...
Architect of the Supreme Court's new home is Cass Gilbert whose design is along classic Corinthian lines, with simple masses carefully proportioned. Builder is George A. Fuller Co. The building's overall measurements are 385 ft. by 304 ft. With the exterior finished in Vermont marble, Alabama marble will be used on the interior, Georgia marble will be used in the four courtyards. At Architect Gilbert's insistence and to the dismay of penny-pinching Congressmen, the Court chamber itself will be finished in Italian and Spanish marbles-a fact so far discreetly soft-pedaled...