Word: gothicisms
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...Outside Munich's Gothic Rathaus, now the seat of the U.S. Military Government, I talked with a short, stocky corporal who told with relish how he had just returned from forbidden Vienna, where he had served with a liaison mission. That mission, he said, was carried out successfully in an atmosphere of trust and good will. And incidentally, he added that the Viennese seemed surprised but happy under Russian occupation, which so far has netted them a larger food ration than Austrians get in the American zone, and also a government chosen from their own people...
...tended the hops. At one of them, two years ago, he met pretty, blond Geraldine Harrington of East Orange, N.J., whom, in honored West Point tradition, he was to marry this week, the day after graduation. On Sundays he attended Episcopal services in the Academy's beautiful Gothic chapel. (Separate services are held for Catholics, Jews, Christian Scientists.) Two years of this grueling testing and training marked him as a man who was able to command, willing to obey, eager to serve, quick to learn, honest, strong, able - in sum, a good soldier. For these reasons he was chosen...
Last December, on the day that the Battle of the Bulge began, I picked my way over and around a sickening mass of debris in front of a devastated, still beautiful Gothic cathedral, just a half hour previously demolished by a V2, and turned into DeBoeystradt in Antwerp. I was on my way to dinner with new-made Belgian friends...
...Assisi, site of 700-year-old San Francesco, oldest Gothic church in Italy, escaped unscathed...
...Strasbourg Cathedral, outstanding 700-year-old example of Gothic architecture, bombed twice, but damage "insignificant...