Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Police Day speaker had barely begun when an unexpected incident occurred. From the gauntly Gothic cathedral, past the huge monument of John Huss at the stake, rolled organ music. Policemen soon silenced the inappropriate sound, and the celebration continued. But throughout the world, people with an ear for the rhythm of history knew that what happened in Prague last week had happened before and would, quite possibly, be repeated in capital after capital...
Compared with the huge pile of Gothic above it, the Psychology Department's home is as out of place as a television set in a monastery. Bright tile floors, fluorescent lighting, carved woodwork, and brick glass inlays give an aura of ultra-modernism that outdistances anything else in the University...
More disastrous than the threatened floods, yesterday's unseasonable thaw flushed Lampoon editors out of their Gothic lair and into the streets of Cambridge for the most perverted gag the funnymen have pulled in many a long year...
Comparative Philology 170. Introduction to the Study of Historical Germanic Linguistics. Gothic. Half-course. Professor Starck...
...Blackie is as amoral as Bill, but far more intelligent, moving from Bill to his brother-in-law, from a happily married man to Johnny Somers, and from innocent Somers to a rural Machiavellian, Crow Johnson, managing violently dramatic exposures of her lovers, public humiliations, or rejoicing in such gothic scenes as an embrace beside a corpse...