Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bordeaux was a British city for 300 years. Its cathedral is perpendicular English Gothic. The Plantaganet lion is still on the city shield and a certain amount of British phlegm remains in the Bordelais temperament. Its shipping is crippled. Repeal has had practically no effect in relieving its wine industry. Before the War Germany bought 16 times as much Bordeaux wine as the U. S. High tariffs have cut U. S. Repeal imports far below expectations, and the German market has completely disappeared. Yet the Bordelais are not ready to revolt. Should there be elections tomorrow their chief interest would...
...Cass Gilbert completed and President Wilson formally opened his most famed structure, the 792-ft. Woolworth Building, still sixth tallest in Manhattan. To critics who objected to the building's Gothic decorations and demanded a "new" style in ornaments, Cass Gilbert gave a reply which described his traditional, assured attitude toward architecture: "New schools of design come, with intervals of centuries between, by slow evolution, and can no more be created out of whole cloth than new social orders or systems of government. The problem of this great shaft cried aloud for some form of Gothic treatment...
...diversity of Adams House architecture provides a new scene for the inmates every time they turn a corner but we haven't heard of anyone in as awkward a position as the residents of Davenport College at Yale. Davenport is Gothic on the outside and has a charming interior of Georgian finish. The story has it that one of the professors in the College took the matter so to heart that he had a dressing gown made with one that harmonized with the Gothic and the other with the Georgian motif. His only problem now is to sit with...
...London's great Gothic Guildhall, Sir Austen Chamberlain rose last week to make a speech defending the League of Nations. 'The joint responsibility of the civilized world is embodied in the League," said he. "But we must first educate public opinion, so the League does not overstrain its strength...
...evening last week people began to fill up the ornate Gothic chapel of the University of Chicago. They kept streaming in after every seat was occupied, stood in massed ranks at the back, trickled into the high galleries over the arches. They stormed applause when a stooped, smallish man with wide thin shoulders and greying hair appeared. They waited in silence while he adjusted the pince-nez balanced precariously on his narrow, prominent nose, ruffled some papers covered with fine, precise handwriting, began to speak in a clear, pleasant voice...