Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gothic Vaulting of the Vagabond's narrow cell grew dim in the dusk of the late afternoon. Outside the rain drizzled down, blanket upon blanket, showing the streets below a black ribbon in which closely wrapped figures hastened under the shuddering arcs to the bright shelter of heated chambers. Through the racing, crowding thunderheads above, there still broke a few dull rays of yellow light, which reflected eyrily from Memorial's gray and blood slates into the oaken garret. The Vagabond turned from the casement to the dark and empty chimney corner and lighted the lamp by his deep leathern...
...comparison with Long Beach. Los Angeles only got a good shaking. Nevertheless, of the 375 schools in the Los Angeles School District, 142 suffered earthquake damage. Parents could be thankful that the shock did not hit until late afternoon. Gimcrackery in the prevailing neo-Gothic style fell in cruel heaps, would have mangled children trying to escape...
...Detroit's art fight started when some clergymen called the vaccination panel a sacrilegious parody. The Institute's secretary blasted back that anyone who saw the Holy Family in that picture "can see spooks in the dark!" One clergyman found a further slur on Christianity in the Gothic decorations of a commercial radio topped by an adding machine in the Parke, Davis panel. Director Valentiner retorted that the museum had "invested more taxpayers' money in symbols, emblems and decorations of the Christian faith" than in those of any other religion. But hot criticism continued and last week...
...which have exhibited the work of Eastern artists for years, the Whitney Museum exhibited a large loan collection of works by Chicago artists. Manhattan critics found the choice excellent, the work sound, were disappointed in the absence of local color. High spot was Grant Wood's famed American Gothic, a portrait of a sad-eyed collarless Iowa farmer & wife (TIME, Sept. 5). Other Chicago artists seemed as willing to copy New York's Reginald Marsh, Thomas Benton, Alexander Brook, as New York artists of a decade ago were to copy Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne...
Bearing down on the Union's Secretary, the 30 Green Shirts seized the minute book and ripped out its pacifist pages. Carrying their prize to the Martyrs' Memorial, the Gothic needle opposite Balliol College,* they solemnly burned the resolution against defending King & Country...