Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...become president emeritus. Wellesley girls of today know "Pres-Penn" as a handsome white-haired lady who glides about town & campus in an ancient electric automobile. To alumnae she is the doughty money-getter who buried the ashes of the College Fire of 1914 beneath tons & tons of Collegiate-Gothic building stone...
...wants was child's play for Librarian Ethelwyn Manning and her 30 assistants. She is prouder of the library's special services. The library has the finest collection of photographs of illuminated manuscripts in the world. Frick photographers have toured the Pyrenees taking pictures of Romanesque and Gothic paintings made long before Giotto was born. Over 1,000 portraits and miniatures have been photographed in private homes in Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Nantucket, Pittsburgh and Bermuda. The library is not too busy to recommend reading lists for ladies' clubs or, for a small...
...oblong, dimly Gothic House of Lords, a furious drama unrolled between two Empire characters each fit to be popped straight into Gilbert & Sullivan. One was the Lord Chief Justice of England, tiny, rolypoly Baron Hewart. The other was the Lord High Chancellor, tall, severe, ascetic Viscount Sankey. Distinctly Gilbertian. with exactly the right lilt, is Lord Sankey's famed remark: "My first brief fetched two guineas-but afterward, roses, roses all the way!" Not since Sullivan set tunes to Trial by Jury has Justice provided a more diverting tale than that told on himself by Lord Sankey...
...birthplace of Herbert Hoover almost as much public attention as the infrequent visits of that President. Wood's credo: U. S. art suffers from a "Colonial attitude" to Europe, a feeling of cultural dependence upon the older continent. To combat this attitude Wood hose irony. His American Gothic (see reproduction) and his spectacular Daughters of Revolution, three prim spinsters against a background of Washington grossing the Delaware, were his first attack. This year, what most critics consider his most important painting. Dinner 'or Threshers (see reproduction), won no prize at the Carnegie International it Pittsburgh but was voted third most...
Wood's theory of regional art rests upon the idea that different sections of the U. S. should compete with one another just as Old World cities competed in the building of Gothic cathedrals. Only thus he believes, can the U. S. develop a truly national art. Whether PWAP has sown the seeds of a national art no man can yet tell, but, beyond dispute, PWAP's investment has not only enormously stimulated the public's interest but has also revealed definite regional traits in art. Some of these districts and their characteristics...