Word: gothically
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Next morning, after a dawn serenade, the visiting couple attended church, then boarded the liner Gothic. As Queen Salote and her family circled the huge vessel in a government launch, the Gothic steamed off toward New Zealand. When the big white ship was hull down on the horizon, a radio message winged its way back: "We take away happiest memories of Tonga and the great and friendly welcome given us by your people. May Almighty God watch over them...
...could muster few smiles during a late reception at King's House, mansion of the island governor, Sir Hugh Foot, next day made by Elizabeth a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order. After three days, embarking for the Panama Canal Zone on the 15,902-ton liner Gothic, the Queen was startled when a dusky Jamaican, impetuously turned Raleigh, tossed his linen jacket at her feet. Ignoring the incident, the Queen walked on. This week, after landing at Cristobal, Elizabeth and Philip spent a busy day inspecting the canal and attending a state dinner given by Panama...
...almost entirely autonomous, and the other branches may also publish on their own. But taken all together, the Oxford University Press covers just about everything except new novels. It has published Lord Bryce's Studies of History and Jurisprudence, Stubbs's Constitutional History of England, Sanskrit and Gothic grammars and the first English translation of Pavlov's Conditioned Reflexes. Its famed dictionary (414,825 words) is the scholar's final arbiter on English words, and its books of verse, its series of Companions and its reprints of the classics are in hundreds of thousands of libraries...
...Peanuts Myth" that uses the reductio ad absurd to no great advantage. This particular one involves nineteenth-century Ivy athletes playing football in motorized wheelchairs. Hindmost in the magazine and in humor is "Informality at Yale," an ironic title because John H. Limpert says that the Yale men "Gothic town" do not have much informality. An "Old College Song" sings sharply of social pressure at Yale, and is notable as the one poem in this Lampoon...
Mephistopheles turned up in evening dress and top hat, instead of red tights. Marguerite did her hair in a high topknot instead of braids. Faust was a bumbling, bourgeois scholar working in a 19th century library (with high shelves and a stepladder) instead of a bare Gothic study. Otherwise, Gounod's Faust was Gounod's Faust, and an old-reliable choice for the Metropolitan Opera's opening night this week...