Word: gothicisms
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Outside the House of Commons another big blizzard snarled transport and set back recovery from The Crisis. But inside the chill Victorian-Gothic chamber, tempers were short and hot. The Mother of Parliaments, majestic but not stuffy, had one of her stormiest, most boisterous weeks in recent history. It went along like this...
Tucked away in a corner of Paris' rue Chaptal, a cobblestone nook at the edge of Montmartre, is a quaint little Gothic chapel. Inside, carved cherubs and two seven-foot angels smile down from the black-raftered vault at a nightly round of vile murders, manglings, and assorted acts of torturing, fang-baring, acid-throwing...
...music swelled through the Gothic nave and died away. At the organ console beside the apse, a white-haired little man of 79 turned off the organ switch and gathered up his music. Dr. T. Tertius Noble, organist for three decades at Manhattan's famed St. Thomas' Protestant Episcopal Church, had decided to give up playing in public "while I can still do a good...
Even those who enjoy the picture of John Bull freezing within the Gothic confines of his Empire should be able to discern American responsibilities in the British crisis. As an expedient, President Truman's offer of coal should be transmitted again, this time coupled with promises of equal aid to the continent so that Mr. Clement Attlee will not be forced to decline the offer in face of greater need elsewhere. And if western Europe can be bound into an economic self-sufficiency only by efficient English production, the Welsh and Sussex mines must be brought out of the 19th...
Blunden defends Shelley's first efforts at "Gothic" romances (he wrote several at Eton and Oxford) as honest, would-be commercial work; Horrid Novels were popular. Shelley enjoyed Oxford, holding his own there with what Blunden calls his "wickedly perfect politeness." He was really surprised and hurt when his love of epistolary arguments and pamphleteering got him expelled for printing a reasonable discussion on The Necessity of Atheism...