Word: gothicisms
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...Newspaper. More than ever the Tribune is McCormick's shadow. In his 24th-floor office in the $18,000,000 Gothic Tribune Tower the Colonel runs the Tribune strictly according to his, and nobody else's, whims, fancies, prejudices. From his red-&-white marble desk runs a direct wire to Managing Editor J. Loy ("Pat") Maloney. Over it all day the Colonel feeds his ideas. His story suggestions go forth initialed "R.R.McC.", meaning that they get into the Tribune for sure, and generally page...
...Seven Blocks of Gothic (reduced to six after Morro left the game) relied almost solely on heft. With their green-light, full-speed-ahead charge, they would have been playing right into the hands of Harlow's Seven Pillars of Purity with their deadly mousetraps...
...Church of St. Augustine at Canterbury, England. Across the room in a serious Frisian grandfather clock of the 17th century, and the Elizabethan mantlepiece next to it has not been dusted since 1583. The fireback is decorated with "Susannah and the Elders" in wrought iron, while tapestries and a Gothic cabinet effectively hide the crumbling north wall...
...plane. From the University of Buenos Aires came Philologist Amada Alonso; from the Catholic Institute of Paris, famed Philosopher Jacques Maritain. In the gathering were 150 college and university presidents. A symposium on the place of ethics in the modern world drew the biggest crowd. In the murk of Gothic Mandel Hall, 2,000 heard totalitarianism doomed by Professors Maritain, Tawney and Charles H. Mcllwain (Harvard) and President Hutchins. Although the learned gen tlemen, like lesser citizens, disagreed on the issue of war and peace they all agreed on the evils of totalitarianism...
Only real universities in the U.S. then were tiny Johns Hopkins and Clark; Harvard was still a college without university research. The University of Chicago sprang fullgrown from Harper's head: the day it opened it had 594 students, a graduate school, Gothic buildings, a faculty of 120 eminent scholars, for which Harper had shamelessly raided eight colleges of their presidents and Clark of most of its professors. To get his men, Harper doubled professors' salaries, paying the unheard-of rate of $7,000 a year. John D.'s first gift of $1,600,000 grew...