Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gothic stillness of San Francisco's Grace Episcopal Cathedral. 1,000 men & women of all faiths gathered one noon last week for pre-invasion prayers. They listened as Godfrey Fisher, British consul general in San Francisco, read from Paul's fiery letter to the Ephesians...
Kneeling thousands stared hard at two phials on the high altar in Naples' gothic Cathedral. The phials, people had been taught, contained dried blood of St. Januarius, patron saint of the city who died a martyr in the time of Diocletian (245-313). Last Saturday the hard, dark substance was due to turn to liquid, as it does the first Saturday of every May and every Sept. 19 if the outlook for Naples is good...
Under the Gothic pile of Parliament's World War I Victory Tower, two V.C.s met. Both were there to sell Victory Bonds for World War II. They shook hands, parted. One was trim, khakied Major Paul Triquet, who won the Victoria Cross early this year before Ortona (TIME, March 20). The other was little Philip Konowal, whose glory had been forgotten by almost everybody but himself...
...Lloyd Douglas' bestseller, will be filmed in Technicolor at a cost of $3½ to 4 million, will run 3½ to 4 hours, and will be directed by Hit-Guarantor Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest, Madame Curie). ¶ The Miracle (Warner), based on Max Reinhardt's hyperpituitary Gothic superspectacle, is budget-estimated by Producer Wolfgang (son of Max) Reinhardt at $3,000,000. Biggest casting problem: an actress adequate for the double role of nun and Madonna. The film will be in Technicolor, and will run the better part of four hours...
Died. Hugh Cecil Lowther, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, 87, legendary last of an 18th-Century pattern - the swashbuckling, sporting peer; in Oakham, Rutland, England. A vigorous black sheep of one of Britain's noblest families, Lord Lonsdale was born at ugly, Gothic, ancestral Lowther Castle (described by myopic Wordsworth as "that majestic pile"), educated at Eton where he was flogged 32 times. He soon tired of this, joined a circus, toured Switzerland for a year and a half as an acrobat and trick rider, is said to have punched cows in Wyoming, explored Alaska, been either a bandit...