Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...exterior of the heavy Victorian-Gothic structure, which has been the subject of more abomination than the inside, will probably remain untouched, he said. Sanders Theater and the big hall will be the centers of the renovation activity...
...character is a magazine publisher who is the Voice of Reason. His wife is the Eternal Hussy: the intelligent emancipated woman, who, while flaying with one hand the dragons her man must kill, still holds fast to the bedpost. There is a visitor to their household who writes modern Gothic novels about an evil spirit named Slime Shindigs, and who can see a little blue light hovering over the house. His function is to play Cassandra, which he does by jamming about the blue light and his damn Shindigs (which, spelled backwards, you see, is almost Myles Standout: Puritanism...
Back to Gooseberry Tart. In Lincoln, hatless, slightly rumpled Attlee pointed aloft to the spires of the city's famed Norman and Gothic cathedral. "There is your heritage," he cried to his audience. "All around is your wealth, and here, in your hands and your brains, is your skill. The country needs it all." Then he added bitterly: "It was not so long ago that skill and brains were forgotten, wasted . . . Profits came first . . . Today you've got work, you've got security, education for your children, and fair shares for all." Later, the Prime Minister...
...Congress but dropped him quick when Jim's political rival exposed his affair with a dashing socialite. When Jim lost his fortune in the Depression, he salvaged what he could and settled down in the old Richardson house to live out a life of hate and Gothic horror with Caroline. Caroline went looking for an anodyne. "Find me a young gentleman roomer," she urged her cousin. "A strong young man. Please, please do that...
...This Gothic tale is artificially tensed by Author Brooke with misleading clues (the point of the confrontation at the Druids' stones is never made clear) and contrived devices of suspense. The Scapegoat still has the ugly reality of a fatal disease...