Word: gothically
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...gothic structure on the corner of Kirkland and Divinity avenues reopened to the public shortly after the Army moved out three and a half years ago but not until last December was Kuhn able to open all the rooms in the building and even then his refurbishing job was not finished...
Amory, a former CRIMSON president, spends eleven pages of text and pictures describing life and atmosphere about the Square. He reaches the conclusion that local buildings which can be safely overlooked are "Memorial Hall, a Victorian-Gothic monstrosity built to commemorate Civil War dead, and the Lampoon Building, built for no reason...
...favor of Mrs. Job's hat ("the turban which spread so rapidly from Persia"). The glories of the Medicis and the Italian Popes simply show that "the bodice is gradually taking on importance"; the Renaissance reaches its peak with a striking innovation named "the handcouvre-chef"; and gothic cathedral frescoes offer the well-dressed lady "a dramatic cuff...
...gloomy, Gothic grandeur of Westminster Abbey, Britain's most hallowed shrine, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee stepped up to a simple wrought-iron stand and drew back an American flag from a shallow niche beside the west door. They uncovered a three-foot-high marble tablet, crowned with an American eagle and inscribed...
...other side of the Yard, the ton-and-a-quarter iron monster suspended in the neo-gothic tower of Memorial Hall counts off the hours all day long. Like the bells of St. Paul's, it is operated by heavy weights which slide down the inside of the tower and turn the clock. The most venerable college bell now in use, it was presented by the alumni shortly before the turn of the century...