Word: doric
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scores. At week's end, reported losses of neutral and Allied shipping from all causes totaled only 15 vessels, 65,634 tons, of which 10,086 tons was the big British refrigerator ship Doric Star which radioed from the South Atlantic that she was being attacked, was heard from no more. Probable assailant: the German raider Admiral Scheer. Germany claimed a grand total of 194 merchantmen (68 neutral, for which she was "sorry") with a tonnage of 735,768-nearly 250,000 tons a month, which would be about one-fourth the highest monthly figure reached in World...
...Doric Rapture (Mr. & Mrs. Armand Denis; TIME...
...thousands of faces, houses and streets." Photographer Evans himself likes some of his pictures because of their designed humor, others for a quality of care and sensitiveness poorly known as "poetry." Evans' ruined Southern mansion, for example, is no ordinary Southern mansion but one of exceptional, weathered, Doric dignity. A huge dead tree is fallen, uprooted, in front of it. Full silvery sunlight etches the tree, its roots and the moss plumes hanging from an upright branch. In the sky there is only one cloud, feathery like the moss...
Some 8,000 spectators, including 2,000 American tourists, gathered for services around the base of the largest and costliest (approximately $500,000) of these memorials, a 175-ft. Doric shaft conceived in pink Italian granite by famed Architect John Russell Pope after the Emperor Trajan's column honoring his victorious Roman legions. Crowded about the still shell-torn hill of Montfaucon were armless and legless war veterans, three U. S. Congressmen and General John J. Pershing's American Battle Monuments Commission-which has spent $4,500,000 on memorials and cemetery chapels abroad. Absent were Senators Russell...
...born roses growing in the crevices of a Doric temple two thousand year old . . . . In Florence: A young Monk, holding gown above his knees, running to catch a crowded trolley car . . . A well-dressed woman from New York, puffing a cigarette in a corner of her mouth, pin a red rose on a shabby beggar who was blind . . . . A thousand black birds break their journey through the sky and stop at a marble ruin lit with moonlight . . . . Mussolini, the Pope and George Santayana...