Word: gothicisms
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...13th Century, St. Thomas Aquinas erected a towering Gothic cathedral of thought with vaulting arches of metaphysics, flying buttresses of Aristotelian science, stained windows of Revelation. In his great study of medieval France, Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres, Henry Adams sympathetically noted the judgment of Pope Leo XIII: "On the wings of St. Thomas's genius, human reason has reached the most sublime height it can probably ever attain...
...accusing the press of misuse of its freedom!" Said Thomas Radcliffe Hutton of the Binghamton Press in Mr. Flynn's home State: "... a political blob of which Jim Farley never would have been guilty." Said the forthright Seattle Times, reverting to old-fashioned style in a bold Gothic headline: "You lie, Mr. Flynn...
...seven unpronounceable Gothic towers of Boston College and the supporting backfield cast is in for an artistic pasting from Tulane's Green Wave in New Orleans this afternoon. The CRIMSON's exclusive correspondent covering the game, the "Southern Sage," wires that several B. C. stars are stricken with colic and rickets. Tulane 27 Boston College 6 Boston University 21 Norwich 0 Bowdoin 13 Tufts 0 Vermont 6 Northeastern 0 Holy Cross 30 Providence 0 Brown 13 Wesleyan 0 Williams 7 Middlebury 0 Rhode Island 10 Maine 0 Bates 20 American I. C. 0 Michigan 13 California 7 Minnesota 14 Washington...
...Britain's German Kings, George III. Rougher ammunition blasted the palace five times, and tore at the spot where millions have watched the changing of the guard. Hit was the paneled house in Chiswick where William Hogarth retired during the summers to draw. So was the Gothic House of Lords-by an incendiary bomb, the fire from which was doused by Members of Parliament. Dingy Whitehall, the administrative hub of the Empire, and Downing Street, a famous address of power, were targets. So was the Tate gallery. Madame Tussaud's waxworks were shaken, and though Admiral Beatty lost...
...showplace of Saratoga Springs, N. Y. is Yaddo, 500-acre estate of the late Banker Spencer Trask and his poet wife, Katrina. For twelve years Yaddo's three-story stone, Victorian-Gothic mansion has been a free, luxurious refuge for writers, painters, musicians, critics, all carefully selected, and carefully mother-superiored by a high-minded, hieratic lady named, Elizabeth Ames. Yaddo has also been, on & off during the past eight years, a place where serious U. S. composers could gather to play, hear, discuss their own music. As such it is valuable, for many composers, especially young ones...