Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...protagonist draws near his goal: graduation from college. Here--and no chauvinism can prompt such a feeling-- is a sport forever hallowed. Or rather, here are spots cherished for their associations, the West Court of Lowell House, the dimly illuminated arch of Sever's doorway, the strange Gothic allure of Memorial Hall, the quadrangle at Commencement with the fine clear voice of President Lowell declaring, "By virtue of authority delegated to me, I confer on you the first degree in arts or in science, and admit you to the company of educated men." Accents unforgettable...
...Gothic Revival Architecture, " Professor Conant, Fogg Large Room...
...Soviet Government was doing everything in its power last week to show that it meant no harm to any other nation. In Rome a non-aggression pact with Italy was signed. A guest in the still magnificent English Gothic Morosov Palace (now the Foreign Office guest residence) and there plied with champagne and caviar blini was bulky, friendly Edouard Herriot of France. Holding no government post, Citizen Herriot smiled a great deal and said nothing. All Moscow was convinced that new Franco- Russian trade agreements were brewing, felt that the old problem of the 20 billion...
...World's Fair in Chicago there was some talk of duplicating the original Parliament. Nothing came of it. Piety at the Fair is represented by Christian Scientist and Roman Catholic exhibits, and a long, L-shaped Hall of Religions with a Gothic tower, containing such churchly wares as Protestants have cared to show (notably the silver Chalice of Antioch which may have been the Holy Grail, and Col. Henry Stanley Todd's virile portrait of Christ-TIME, April 17). Nearest thing to a Parliament is a corollary to the Fair which opened last week at the Hotel Morrison...
...Picture the cancerous growth of modern infidelity as ego-complexed pulpiteers, disguising the breed of the wolf beneath silk cassocks and lacy chasubles, masquerade in imposing processions within high vaulted Gothic cathedrals, built with the superfluous millions of American plutocrats. . . . Think of the brilliant agnostics who read from the Scriptures with crossed thumbs, tongues in the cheek, and mental reservations, who place the Bible on the one level with heathen philosophies. . . . Think of the smooth, oily surrender of the deity of our Savior ... I still repeat the cry, 'BACK TO LUTHER...