Word: gothicisms
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...Chronicle took rooms for his newshawks at a hotel across the street from his plant, filled his basement with foodstuffs, bided his time. When the strike hit the city's food supply, he fed his employes in the Chronicle's cooking school on the second floor of his Gothic building, cheered up photographers who returned from the embattled Embarcadero with smashed cameras, had a pat on the back for red-eyed, coughing newshawks who had been through the No-Man's Land of teargas, brickbats, bullets and flying railroad spikes...
...Prague Castle's gothic, spidery Ladislaus Hall last week the 420 Deputies and Senators of Czechoslovakia's parliament met to elect a President by secret ballot. The secrecy was unnecessary because all the world knew what the result would be. For the fourth successive time gentle white-chinned Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and only President of Czechoslovakia, was overwhelmingly elected. Today President Masaryk is 84; if he lives out his fourth term he will...
Bordeaux was a British city for 300 years. Its cathedral is perpendicular English Gothic. The Plantaganet lion is still on the city shield and a certain amount of British phlegm remains in the Bordelais temperament. Its shipping is crippled. Repeal has had practically no effect in relieving its wine industry. Before the War Germany bought 16 times as much Bordeaux wine as the U. S. High tariffs have cut U. S. Repeal imports far below expectations, and the German market has completely disappeared. Yet the Bordelais are not ready to revolt. Should there be elections tomorrow their chief interest would...
...Cass Gilbert completed and President Wilson formally opened his most famed structure, the 792-ft. Woolworth Building, still sixth tallest in Manhattan. To critics who objected to the building's Gothic decorations and demanded a "new" style in ornaments, Cass Gilbert gave a reply which described his traditional, assured attitude toward architecture: "New schools of design come, with intervals of centuries between, by slow evolution, and can no more be created out of whole cloth than new social orders or systems of government. The problem of this great shaft cried aloud for some form of Gothic treatment...
...diversity of Adams House architecture provides a new scene for the inmates every time they turn a corner but we haven't heard of anyone in as awkward a position as the residents of Davenport College at Yale. Davenport is Gothic on the outside and has a charming interior of Georgian finish. The story has it that one of the professors in the College took the matter so to heart that he had a dressing gown made with one that harmonized with the Gothic and the other with the Georgian motif. His only problem now is to sit with...