Word: gothicisms
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...Soviet Government was doing everything in its power last week to show that it meant no harm to any other nation. In Rome a non-aggression pact with Italy was signed. A guest in the still magnificent English Gothic Morosov Palace (now the Foreign Office guest residence) and there plied with champagne and caviar blini was bulky, friendly Edouard Herriot of France. Holding no government post, Citizen Herriot smiled a great deal and said nothing. All Moscow was convinced that new Franco- Russian trade agreements were brewing, felt that the old problem of the 20 billion...
...Picture the cancerous growth of modern infidelity as ego-complexed pulpiteers, disguising the breed of the wolf beneath silk cassocks and lacy chasubles, masquerade in imposing processions within high vaulted Gothic cathedrals, built with the superfluous millions of American plutocrats. . . . Think of the brilliant agnostics who read from the Scriptures with crossed thumbs, tongues in the cheek, and mental reservations, who place the Bible on the one level with heathen philosophies. . . . Think of the smooth, oily surrender of the deity of our Savior ... I still repeat the cry, 'BACK TO LUTHER...
...Dauphin. Weiler's grandson, in the days when Johnny was growing up, kept a commercial hotel in the town, where drummers sat and exchanged dirty stories. There are enough minor characters in The Farm to fill a dozen Spoon Rivers-people like Dr. Trefusis, whose grandiose Gothic house was one of the town's sights; Big Mary, an amiable, immensely efficient Negro cook, who refused to exchange her status of "accommodator" for steady employment; Johnny's Uncle Robert, a champion bicycle racer who was killed in a railroad accident when, during a wild thunderstorm, his train plunged...
...great port of Havre up the coast. In 1926 the Cherbourg Chamber of Commerce, fat with embarkation and debarka tion fees paid by U. S. tourists, began to carve out a real harbor with an inside breakwater and two deep-water piers. It raised a huge $2,500,000 Gothic passenger terminal topped by a tower bearing the arms of the City of New York. Prime mover was Cherbourg Chamber of Commerce President Camille Quoniam, who has long worked to popularize the works of U. S. Philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson in France. Last week Cherbourg's new roadstead covered...
...stock joke of the Latin orations then, as now, was the term, "Pulcherimis puellas," at which the gathering has laughed with boring regularity for 300 years. From 1654 to 1698 Harvard boasted an Indian College a little brick house which stood where Matthews now presents a study in Gothic revival. Indians were rather shy about going to Harvard in those days, and only one ever graduated. The building was finally torn down and its bricks used in building the first Stoughton Hall...