Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...16th Century Gothic hunting tapestries, each...
...Tournai (or Oudenaarde) Gothic...
...coal stove, likes to have two months to execute a large order. A Mme Blanche fruit cake is supposed to last 25 years. Stiil in her "studio"' in Manhattan is the romantic ruin of a ten-year-old cake on which she occasionally likes to nibble. Like the Gothic cathedral builders, Mme Blanche believes in symbolism in her designs. The base of the Inaugural Cake was of lady's cake, a Georgia recipe in honor of President Roosevelt's interest in Warm Springs. Around its rim were miniatures of every President from Washington to Hoover garlanded...
...auction in New York since Depression, high water mark in the three day sale of the heterogeneous art collection of shrewd old Thomas Fortune Ryan. Relatives, collectors, and many of the original dealers from whom he bought them bid up the rest of the etchings, picture books, Persian rugs, Gothic and Renaissance bronzes & marbles, Etruscan urns and other pomps & gauds assembled in the financier's long acquisitive life for a total...
...keeping with the prevailing style of architecture at Yale, all the Colleges are Gothic with the exception of Pierson and Davenport, which are American Georgian like the Harvard House. The rich and heavy Gothic makes the Colleges seem more cloistered, while the narrow windows make most of the rooms rather dark. The Colleges are uniformly smaller than the Houses, accommodating from 175 to 200 residents apiece...