Word: corinthians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...service suffused with Christianity." Though "it left too little room for the individual to develop ... there could hardly have been a cleaner school in England." New Boy Q decorated his room with knickknacks. Next day, the Housemaster pinned a notice on the school board: "The House is reminded that Corinthian embellishments consort ill with its tradition of Doric austerity...
...behind a façade that may combine the styles of the Taj Mahal, the Erechtheum and Ralph Adams Cram Gothic. But when Fresno (Calif.) citizens planned their city hall they decided to break with U.S. tradition. They decided that a city hall has no need of domes, pillars, Corinthian capitals or musty interiors copied from Roman baths. Last week U.S. architects were hailing the result of Fresno's decision...
...Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club Chicago...
...wilderness." "As in 1800 and 1850, so in 1860," wrote Henry Adams, "the same rude colony was camped in the same forest, with the same unfinished Greek temples for workrooms, and sloughs for roads." The dome of the Capitol had been torn down for repairs; of hundreds of Corinthian columns, only three were in place. The rest lay scattered about the lawns among blocks of marble, lumber, iron, workmen's sheds, heaps of coal and wood. Augustly seated among the debris was the statue of George Washington, "modeled on the Roman conception of Jupiter Tonans . . . naked to the waist...
...step, stood the inaugural platform, the white paint only a few hours fresh on the new pine boards. On the unroofed south side of the platform were gathered the House members; on the unroofed north, the Senate. Under the roof on its eight, paint-wet, wooden Corinthian columns the Supreme Court was ranked, in formal robes; behind the Court the Cabinet, behind them the Diplomatic Corps, brave with braid. At the very front-&-centre stood the little podium, weedy with microphones. Close at hand stood the President's mother in a black hat, a black coat with silver...