Word: gothicisms
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...years Vag had dropped into Mem Hall for various official reasons, but this was something new. After three centuries of Puritanical restraint, the College was using the Gothic barn with the bathroom-floor roof for strictly social ends. Half-horrified and half-pleased, Vag could see tomorrow's headlines in the Globe: HARVARD SUBSIDIZES ROMANCE...
...Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke; a batch of first-water Rembrandts, including a famed Portrait of a Youth; Flemish Primitive Aelbrecht Bouts's well-known Annunciation; landscapes and portraits by Hobbema, Cuyp, Lawrence, Gainsborough, Turner and Van Dyck; remarkable collections of 15th-Century Italian sculpture, medieval Gothic tapestries, ceramics and an assortment of furniture equaled only in the Rockefeller and Hamilton Rice collections. The late John L. Severance had done his picking & choosing with an eye to the needs of the Cleveland museum, so the museum found little to weed out. Cleveland now has one of the best...
...relaxed, looked up from the mass of unanswered registration questions and allowed his eyes to adjust for more distant vision. He gazed again at the stained glass windows of the Gothic Barn, and then lowered his eyes to the endless sea of registrants around him. Vag had never registered in Summer School before, and the adult multitude dotted here and there with gray-haired ladies seemed rather odd to him. Schoolteachers, he told himself. Uncounted multitudes of more schoolteachers as far as the eye could reach, with vistas of more schoolteachers beyond, to the very confines of Memorial Hall. There...
...election, and he owes his election to the votes of the Conservative majority. He has been at East Liberty since 1921, saw it become "the most beautiful Presbyterian Church in the world" when Banker-Industrialist Richard B. Mellon (Andrew's brother) gave $4,500,000 for its soaring Gothic buildings. His congregation of 2,500 gives $160,000 a year for church causes, personally supports 14 foreign missionaries...
...visitors of the cemetery today care to linger over the tombs or even the magnificent Gothic, Matthewesque chapel. The original chapel began to decompose shortly after it was built, being unfit to bear exposure to the air of this variable climate. But the cemetery corporation had no trouble in securing an exact copy. Fronting the chapel is one of the most noticeable features of the cemetery--the Sphinx. The sculptor succeeded admirably in getting rid of the disturbing mystery that distinguishes its Egyptian counterpart. There are no foreign elements, such as beauty, in this Sphinx. From his vantage point...