Word: gothically
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...higher level than that of any other country in the world." Those who supposed that Architect Cram, when he spoke of "the higher level," was referring to the silver splinters of sky scrapers in Manhattan and elsewhere, were soon disabused. Architect Cram, apostle of the gothic, has only an academic interest in these astonishing and often beautiful towers. He disapproved of them on principle but said that he "would like to try to build one." Himself a great builder of churches, he referred to U. S. religious monuments...
...Nowhere in Europe is ecclesiastical architecture expressing definite, concrete religion. Gothic is the perfect voicing of this, and nowhere is it to be found in modern work except in the United States...
...Italian Gothic," Professor Edgell, Robinson Hall...
...opera war; he who con- ducted the famed Music Hall at 42d St. & Broadway; he who made varied and spectacular sorties beyond the beaten path of the new world's amusements. Last week son Arthur Hammerstein unveiled a vast memorial to him in the shape of an exceedingly Gothic theatre containing everything from an elevating orchestra pit to an organ, before a vast audience containing memorable citizens from James John Walker, Mayor, to Nazimova, actress...
...English Gothic," Professor Edgell, Rabinson Hall...