Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia, and affected U. S. business suits and hornrimmed glasses. Today single-breasted coats with peak lapels have given way to snappy uniforms and shiny boots, and when the newly elected Kepviselohdz (Chamber of Deputies) convened last week in its wing of the six acres of Gothic magnificence that house the Hungarian Parliament, the scene was less like a meeting of a cornfed legislature than a kraut-eating military congress...
Such signs, splashed on freight cars, railroad stations and blank walls, warn visitors to North Carolina of their approach to super-collegiate Duke University. Duke has one of the most spectacular football teams, one of the most Gothic campuses in the U. S. Its students are fanatically fond of football. They are also fanatically reverent toward the man who gave their university its name, its Gothic campus and its football team-the late Tobaccoman James Buchanan ("Buck") Duke...
...forests. Easiest to camouflage, says Mr. Stafford, is a flat-roofed building in wooded countryside, over which a continuation of the woods may be painted; hardest is a tall building by a river, especially one with a big smokestack. Impossible to make look like something else are the Gothic-towered Houses of Parliament...
Consequently, the newspapers of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton take great pleasure in removing from the presses the Fourth Edition, Revised, of the H-Y-P Conference. Down where the Gothic spires of Princeton rise so incredibly from the flat tidal lands of New Jersey, men will examine the vital processes which motivate a nation; The Crimson hopes that Harvard's intellectual aristocracy will attend the examination...
...Rehn Galleries was a show of large, firmly painted water colors by Charles Burchfield, in which that famous first of the "U. S. Scene" artists proved his widening scope. When Burchfield began to paint in upstate New York, he loved and satirized the blackening monuments of "General Grant Gothic" architecture in U. S. houses and streets. In his later work, satire is supplanted by more profound emotion. Most dramatic if not the finest example: December Twilight: a cold, desolate village against a furnace slit of sunset...