Word: gothically
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...million goggling Aussies whooped it up on the shore as the royal liner Gothic steamed into Sydney harbor. There were 1,000 private yachts, several Australian warships, scores of sightseeing steamers, and a school of hot-rod speedboats driven by cheering teenagers, who seemed more eager to swamp the police boats than to welcome their Queen. Cannon roared; sirens blew; wave after wave of fighter aircraft swooped low over the royal yacht. Her Majesty, helped by Philip, stepped ashore at Farm Cove, where the first English settlers (290 freemen and 717 convicts) landed...
...Waiting Room? The word medieval still holds a connotation of cobwebbed armor, bad sanitary facilities and picture-postcard Gothic cathedrals. Although 20th century historians deal more kindly with medieval man than did their Victorian forerunners, he still seems even further removed from modern mentality than the classic Greeks and Romans...
After a 39-day stopover in New Zealand, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh boarded the royal liner Gothic while foghorns bellowed and bands tootled. Next stop: Sydney, Australia...
...easy informality of the visitor who is not only Britain's Queen but their own. From the first moment of their welcome in Auckland harbor, when New Zealand yachtsmen by the hundreds braved a spanking breeze in sleek sloops and smart knockabouts to guide their liner Gothic to its berth, Elizabeth and her husband Philip radiated warmth and friendliness. They cut security measures to a minimum so that their subjects could see them close at hand. They went out of their way to arrange a call on one proud Maori chieftain who had been bypassed in the official schedule...
...13th rector of one of the oldest and oddest Episcopal parishes in the U.S. was conducting the service with which he begins his church's Christmas season. Before him, in the brown Gothic interior familiar to tourists, sat a score of the clergy, his vestrymen, and 1,200 members of the seven congregations of New York City's Trinity Parish...