Word: exteriorly
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...critical study, he did America a great service. Those years are, to most of us, the age of brownstone mansions and little else; the author of "Sticks and Stones" and "The Golden Day" in his new book shows us that things of real importance were happening underneath the drab exterior of the period...
When coats were stowed under seats, house lights extinguished, the audience was shown the exterior of a large New England home, a portico of deathly paleness only partially masking the building's sepulchral grey face. Here dwell the Mannons. With swift, sure strokes a long story is told...
...Harkness Hoot. These young posts hover over Yale's precious architecture, thumb their noses at its partially Gothic elegance, refuse to be in any way cowed by the Harkness millions, and take an unholy delight in the inconsistencies they see taking shape around them--particularly in the Gothic exterior of Pierson-Davenport College and its Georgian inner court. They helpfully offer as their own proposed Yale building a drawing of a very prettily designed small church of American colonial architecture topped with a large, ornate Gothic tower, as if the Woolworth Building had ambled down Broadway and climbed...
...behind all this exterior militant loyalty there is a distinguishing factor which differentiates the Harvard alumnus from the majority of other college graduates. In most cases his love for Harvard is not founded on a blind patriotism but rather on an intellectual admiration for the college that gave him his education. When this develops into a complacent consciousness of superiority it becomes intolerable. But as long as it remains the conviction that going to Harvard was not wasting time but rather the beginning of a vigorous intellectual life the attitude is correct and good. Out of this belief will grow...
...went first to the Germanic Museum, it is just a step from Memorial, with its curious exterior. In this building he found housed certain replicas of German culture which he secretly considers, from the depths of his casual knowledge about such things, to be one of the most highly developed and interesting of any nation. There were statues of Frederick the Great and the Great Elector. Before this last the Vagabond paused a moment in indecision. Did the adjective reflect on the man's girth or his mental ability...