Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them to homely homiletics. Some of the most important of these tapestries figured in the auction's largest sale-$43,000 each for two 11-by-15-ft. genre scenes, woven circa 1500, of country life at the Château d'Effiat in Auvergne. These Tournai Gothic tapestries went to a New York dealer. For $32,000, the same dealer carried off a rare 16th Century Brussels Gothic tapestry, 13-by-21 ft., depicting the story of the Prodigal Son. For practicing prodigals was the sale's oddest item, a rare Georgian walnut & leather "drunkard...
Under the dome of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, acoustically the finest hall in the country, the Glee Club will offer a program of sixteenth century motets on Friday, May 21, in roder to get the effect of singing in a Gothic cathedral...
...tree-clad ridge near Cumberland, R. I. lies a cluster of austere grey Gothic buildings, laid up in stone during the past 35 years by white-robed members of the Order of Cistercian Monks of the Strict Observance. The 62 men of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley-among them a onetime Canadian Northwest "Mountie," a onetime department store manager, a onetime railway construction engineer, a onetime civil engineer, a World War aviator-labor daily in their fields and cowbarns. Save when all of them sing their psalms, recite their orisons, or when a few of them maintain...
...reach superior councils, plans are under way at the Law School, where the demand is most urgent, for Union Cooperation to provide temporary dining quarters. Entirely a Law School enterprise this student-managed restaurant would be a second alternative should the University not favor demands to use the Gothic structure. Opportunity for students to earn board by waiting and executive work would overcome a serious shortcoming of the higher educational schools, it was emphasized...
...grey building", University Hall, was called "very fine" by Professor Gropius. He also liked the contrast afforded by the thick pillars and slim tower of Memorial Church, which he confused with Memorial Hall, "the gothic affair." He was delighted with the "characteristic old American style" of the Yard buildings, and of houses in Concord, which he said were very gay because of their white painted walls...