Word: cruciform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty miles from London stands an historic hill and on it stands an historic Cathedral. Its dark cruciform shape lowers over the countryside, its Norman towers stretch sadly to the sky. It was in the 12th century that workmen first piled stone on stone to fashion the Cathedral of St. Albans. Since then many workmen and architects have rebuilt, altered and toyed, but the Cathedral still stands much as it was first planned by an abbot who wished to honor a martyred saint...
...cathedral idea enthralls the minds of U.S. tycoons, spreads from cinema to insurance potentates. Therefore when famed Architect Cass Gilbert designed the new $21,000,000 New York Life Insurance building he Gothicized its decoration, planned its gigantic foyer in the cruciform shape of a nave and transepts. Like a huge stalagmite the structure stands on the site of the old Madison Square Garden, lifts its glinting spire 617 feet above the pavements. In a banquet hall on the 14th floor a dedicatory ceremony was held, last week. President Coolidge, button-punching at the White House, flooded the feast with...
...Nelson Harding, whose "Intolerance" figure is reproduced, won the Pulitzer Prize of 1927 for his picture of Colonel Lindbergh flying to Mexico with his plane casting a cruciform shadow labeled "Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men." At the end of August he drew a telling picture called "The Big Bout to Date"?an enormous prize-ring in which two tiny pugilists (the two Parties) threatened each other with furious futility from opposite corners. The crowd was yelling: "Fight! G'wan, fight...
Cartooning, Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, twice a winner, for his sketch of Colonel Lindbergh's plane casting a cruciform shadow over Mexico, with the title, "May his shadow never grow less...
Contemporaneous with General Pershing's utterances was the announcement of plans for another National Church in Washington, this one not to be a U. S. Westminster Abbey or even a cathedral. Instead, it will be the largest U. S. cruciform church; it will be called the National Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Charles Wood, D.D., president of its incorporators, revealed that a site had already been chosen, that the church would be 290 feet long and 150 feet wide, that its steeple or tower would rise 222 feet above the ground...