Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mission Field"; Nathaniel ("Nat") Noble. Yale 1928, who told "Why I Am Going into the Ministry." With them met students from 20 colleges. They walked, skated, played squash, talked. At midnight, while many another student was roistering 1932 away, they knelt in St. Paul's elaborate Gothic chapel...
...many as possible of the cheapest sort of magazines for sale in the Times Square district. He worked on the theory that the Grub Street products of an age had a distinct place in its literary history. William W. Watt, in his essay on the penny, sixpenny and shilling Gothic stories that persisted long after "Frankenstein" and "The Monk" had passed out of fashion, has proved this unanswerably...
When Dr. Beaven preached his farewell sermon, there was weeping in Lake Avenue Baptist Church. Under its new president Colgate-Rochester (product of a merger in 1928) has grown in stature. This autumn was dedicated its new $2,000,000 Gothic plant, largely the gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. Fond of bowling as well as of chopping wood. Dr. Beaven saw to it that bowling alleys were built at the Divinity School. He is tall, well set up, grey-haired, father of three (a fourth child died). On his way to Indianapolis last week Dr. Beaven stopped...
...their frosty Thanksgiving morning, Chicagoans massed in the parks of the Midway, along sidewalk and gutter, all facing toward the University of Chicago's Gothic chapel, as the sound of bells from no direction that one could fix filled and emptied the air, now eerily fading, now resurging like a seashell's roar, brassily clanging, diminishing, mellowing into silver chimes. It was the University of Chicago's first carillon concert. In the 200-ft. tower of the chapel, Carilloneur Kamiel Lefévere, humped on his bench, was striking with clenched fists the keys of a huge...
Perhaps it is only that Radcliffe has changed, though there are doubts on that score. Of course, the Vagabond wandered a bit confusedly through Gothic Yale Saturday, of course he drank cocktails with very smooth Elis, but, unexpectedly, he met Radcliffe after the game in a Harkness study. She was drying her shoes before the fire, and as she wriggled silken toes all was confessed. Not ships and sealing-wax were the topics of conversation, not the game, for Radcliffe felt very bad on that point (she had been there with a Yale man) but Harvard men themselves were dissected...