Word: gothically
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...clearing in a fragrant pine forest in North Carolina. There, awaiting its first formal inspection by important outsiders, stood the most prodigious new educational project in the land this century?Duke University, now nearly complete though little grass yet grows on its sandy campus, no ivy on its neo-Gothic walls of soft-colored fieldstone...
...Radio City. The designers were still tinkering with it last week. Prominently present, however, was bristle-headed, kinetic Raymond Hood's model for the scarlet-blue-&-gold Electrical Building for the Chicago World's Fair. Among Norman farmhouses for Pennsylvania tycoons, Spanish palaces for Hollywood directors, French Gothic cathedrals for Idaho Baptists, critics were more interested in Delano & Aldrich's design for the new U. S. Embassy on the Place de la Concorde, Paris...
Dilettante painting is far from the La Farges' only accomplishment. Son Christopher Grant La Farge was first architect for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, succeeded in erecting the gigantic columns and romanesque choir, which his successor the mystically Gothic Ralph Adams is busily altering. Manhattanites remember Christopher Grant La Farge as designer of most of the buildings in the Bronx Zoo and of New York's subway kiosks. His two lank sons, both contributors to the family exhibition, are Christopher, known as "Kipper," and Oliver, known as "Ink." Kipper is an architect, likewise an able amateur...
...chapel is a handsome Gothic cathedral, designed by the eminent ecclesiastical architects, Cram & Goodhue of Boston. After the "baby" had been heard at midnight of the Thursday preceding the game in 1924 each midnight found students, residents & faculty assembled in the unlighted chapel. Toward the latter part of the week the chapel was crowded, students were on the roof, in the choir stalls, stationed in every possible part of the chapel inside & outside. The location of the ''baby" was never ascertained. The "baby" has not cried since 1924 and Sewanee has not defeated Vanderbilt in football since that...
Ever since the first Gothic spires rose over the Isis it has been the pleasant custom of the undergraduates of Oxford to purchase their doublets and smallclothes, their ales, wines, liquors and later their cigars, "on tick'' (credit). It is an equally venerable custom for Oxford undergraduates to leave their Alma Mater heavily in debt to the merchants of the city...