Word: gothically
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Below on the oblong floor of the House, which is a great Gothic box, crisp English primroses bloomed in the buttonholes of scores of M. P.s, for Budget Day had happened to fall on "Primrose Day."** On the Government front bench sat snowy-crested Scot MacDonald between the Empire's two biggest bumblers, Stanley Baldwin, Lord President of the Council, and James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, Secretary of State for the Dominions. Exactly at 3:30 p. m. Chancellor Chamberlain rose, ruffled his notes, took a stiff stance beside the red leather despatch box and, before he began to make...
...horse shows, prize fights, dog shows, a beer garden and cabaret, he found it suitable to clap a copy of Seville's Giraldo Tower on one side and then get his good friend Augustus St. Gaudens to set a 13-ft. nude Greek goddess tiptoe on the Moorish-Gothic-Renaissance cathedral belfry. Beyond its inappropriateness, the Garden tower was a lovely thing and New York cherished her Diana. For almost 40 years newspaper poets, after-dinner speakers, prize fighters, cab drivers, club members waxed sentimental about her. William Sydney ("O. Henry") Porter wrote one of his best known stories...
Another part of the exhibit shows typical examples of New York sky-scrapers ranging from the classic Gothic of the Woolworth Building, to the ultra modern emphasis upon the vertical line as exemplified in the soaring tiers of windows, and strips of concrete of the Daily News Building. The graduated indents of the older Chanin Building are in sharp contrast to the sheer lift of the new Empire State Building. showing that transition is taking place rapidly...
Little phased by the usual complication of such a tale, however, the Barrymores seem equally at home in the huge hallways, the three-story Gothic arches, and the long expanses of stairways of the Gourney-Martin country house. The ease with which John, clad in a smoking jacket, pipe in mouth, opens massive oaken doorways and closes them noiselessly, tiptoes softly along the great corridors, and the grace and agility with which he slides down the huge, smooth stone bannisters are a pleasure to watch. One can almost smell the fragrance of his pipe as he leans over the rail...
...fifteenth century, the cut formed an integral part of the printed page. The simple, expressive figures of the German cuts with their heavy outlines harmonize with the angular Gothic type just as the more delicate outlined figures of the Italian cuts harmonize with the Roman letter of the text. The draughtsman was himself probably the woodcutter. In the sixteenth century, the greatest artists of the time as Durer and Holbein made designs to be cut in the block, and the cutting was done by the professional woodcutter of the day. A group of German books exhibited includes Durer's Small...