Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fashionable Cheese. His new devotion to Raphael, Dali believes, is just as fashionable as his handsome hotel suite in midtown Manhattan (which he once described as "an immense Gothic Roquefort cheese"). In fact, he says, "eet ees prophétique. Le people are tired of l'ugliness. Eet ees not possible to continue the destructive themes of Picasso. Mon revolution," he adds gravely, "ees very close to Catholicism...
...Haven was a quiet city last night, but a city obviously ready to burst at the seams momentarily, as thousands of Crimson adherents poured into the gothic fortress that is Eli Yale. Minions of the law, everywhere in evidence, had little trouble, but spent their long hours moving efficiently through the streets. Last night the Crimson carried off most of the honors to be had in New Haven. Here for the game and excited about it, the visitors out-cheered, out-sang, and out-shouted their hosts throughout the clear, cold evening hours...
...kept thinking how wonderful it was of Leo to condescend to ask me, a "Harvard" girl, down to that marvelous Yale school! I've heard so much about, it. Leo's father went to Yale, and to hear him talk-about Mory's,and the huge Gothic buildings, and Mory's and the jovial parties at the fraternities and at Mory's, and the great Yale Bowl, and the beer at Mory's-maybe his father wrote, "Shall I Wastin'". If Yale had a girl's school...
Died. James Gamble Rogers, 80, architect of the old school, whose modern masterwork is Manhattan's enormous Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and whose quainter works include many college buildings (one Rogers building at Yale is Gothic on one side, Georgian on the other); in his Medical Center...
What Dr. Evans got his teeth into was a church with a membership of 2,378, a conventional "high-school-Gothic," red brick building and a debt of $250,000. He wiped out the debt within the first year. Each year since then, on all his calls for money, his flock has answered by topping the figure. All told, his church members* gave $328,000 last year, more than was given by any other Presbyterian congregation in the U.S. Hollywood First Presbyterian claims two other records: more new members during the past five years, the largest Sunday School enrollment...