Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fictional sisters from Columbus, Ohio move into a characteristic Greenwich Village mare's nest-a furnished, one-room, basement apartment (with partitioned bathroom) suggesting a cross between a Gothic crypt and a rummage sale...
...least 20 of Hearst's collections were outstandingly good, and five-armor, English furniture, English silver, Gothic tapestry, Hispano-Moresque pottery-ranked among the finest private collections in the world...
...sleeve-hearted age, when even General Washington could shed a distinguished tear over a drizzly romance. Its novels were luridly plotted to make up for the complete lack of individuality in their characters: seduced female, splendid rake, long-suffering wife, noble savage, etc. Popular was the Gothic atmosphere of ruins, nightingales, skeletons, poison vials...
...locusts in China, descended on Yale last weekend. Cambridge was left a deserted village while, by Pullman and by thumb, the Crimson supporters swarmed south to New Haven. Well might the bulldog have retired into his Kennel and watched the hordes go by. But the portals of every Gothic structure were thrown wide open in welcome. House football teams were provided with bed, board, and dance tickets. Soccer and touch football men got like treatment. And inter-House dining privileges were honored in "brother" colleges to the Harvard Houses...
...their stately nave & apse, Dr. Sockman's Methodist congregation called on a famed Anglo-Catholic, Medievalist Ralph Adams Cram. Architect Cram is best known for his soaring Gothic fanes-Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, the chapels at Princeton and West Point, etc.-but decided that Byzantine would look better on Park Avenue. On a Mediterranean cruise he eyed churches in Greece, Italy and Turkey as models, visited quarries and factories to get the marbles and materials he wanted. At last week's dedication he heaved a sigh of relief because everything had arrived safely...