Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dauphin. Weiler's grandson, in the days when Johnny was growing up, kept a commercial hotel in the town, where drummers sat and exchanged dirty stories. There are enough minor characters in The Farm to fill a dozen Spoon Rivers-people like Dr. Trefusis, whose grandiose Gothic house was one of the town's sights; Big Mary, an amiable, immensely efficient Negro cook, who refused to exchange her status of "accommodator" for steady employment; Johnny's Uncle Robert, a champion bicycle racer who was killed in a railroad accident when, during a wild thunderstorm, his train plunged...
...great port of Havre up the coast. In 1926 the Cherbourg Chamber of Commerce, fat with embarkation and debarka tion fees paid by U. S. tourists, began to carve out a real harbor with an inside breakwater and two deep-water piers. It raised a huge $2,500,000 Gothic passenger terminal topped by a tower bearing the arms of the City of New York. Prime mover was Cherbourg Chamber of Commerce President Camille Quoniam, who has long worked to popularize the works of U. S. Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson in France. Last week Cherbourg's new roadstead covered...
...stock joke of the Latin orations then, as now, was the term, "Pulcherimis puellas," at which the gathering has laughed with boring regularity for 300 years. From 1654 to 1698 Harvard boasted an Indian College a little brick house which stood where Matthews now presents a study in Gothic revival. Indians were rather shy about going to Harvard in those days, and only one ever graduated. The building was finally torn down and its bricks used in building the first Stoughton Hall...
Hottest June day in Chicago's history (100.1°) occurred last week. Sluicing his throat with iced drinks at his home in Wheaton, Ill., Col. Robert Rutherford McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, gave thought to his employes sweltering in that magnificent Gothic pile on Michigan Avenue, the Tribune Tower. Big-framed Col. McCormick marched to the telephone, called Superior 0100, got Holmes Onderdonk, Tribune building superintendent, on the wire. Said Publisher McCormick to Superintendent Onderdonk, in effect: "I want you to work up a plan for air-conditioning the Tribune Tower. Find out all about it-what systems...
...following theses have appeared in previous years: "Poetical Intoxication," by W. N. Bates '30; "Shakspere and the Ireland Forgeries," by Derk Bodde '30; "The Respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw," by Ayers Brinser '31; "The Creed of a Victorian Pagan," by Robert Peel '31; and "Shilling Shockers of the Gothic School," by W. W. Watt '32. Publication of honors theses is made possible by a grant from the Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers...