Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perplexed and questioning, a sad Ibis fluttered back and forth along the Bow Street clothing-store annex with quizzical eye and mournful heart. "Boola, boola," the Blot sobbed; "no more Dutch white lead tiles for sale, but we're expecting a supply of Gothic arches from New Haven shortly...
...Oxford Union is Britain's nursery of politicians, and the presidency of the Union is Oxford's top undergraduate honor. The Union is housed with clublike amenities in St. Michael's Street, in Gothic buildings as sizable as one side of a college quadrangle. The great hall's gallery, officers' dais, and rows of facing benches recall the House of Commons scene as sharply as its casually businesslike, irrelevantly witty proceedings recall the Commons' tempo and temper...
...four-starred blue flag of Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll fluttered down from the aftermast of the historic frigate Constellation at Newport, and the flag of a new Admiral went up. After almost three years as Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CinCLant), efficient, Gothic-faced Admiral Ingersoll had moved on to a new job. By this week he was busy, as commander of the Western Sea Frontier, speeding the flow of ships, men and supplies across the Pacific to Annapolis Classmate Chester W. Nimitz...
...General Was Frank. Last week Allied Commander in Chief General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander conceded that the campaign was stuck. In his first interview in six months, quiet, expert Alexander agreed that the Gothic Line break in September was a failure: the autumn rains had bogged down the drive before the Po Valley was conquered. Said the General...
...Rubble. The town was a welter of muddy rubble, pervaded by the stench of dead animals and burst sewer and gas mains. Despite all efforts of Allied airmen to spare the cathedral, one bomb had pierced the roof of the Gothic choir and smashed the empty tomb of Emperor Otto III (11th Century). The U.S. troops who fought toward the air-raid shelter had been trained in the streets of a bomb-riddled town in England...