Word: gothicized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Byzantine structure near the western end of Victoria Street, not to be confused with Gothic, Protestant Westminster Abbey at the eastern...
...here that mournful Danish Prince Hamlet lived his strange interlude of sorrow, yearned for the sad Ophelia. It was here they imprisoned Caroline Matilda, idiot King Christian VII's "Queen of Tears." As Elsinore grows, imports new customs, machinery, the castle remains apart. About its solid gothic structure there is an air of infinite age and sorrow...
Continuing, he said things calculated to amaze both the pious and the artistic. "We do not want something Gothic," he declared. "The time has gone by when the Church should be content with a weak imitation of medieval architecture. Our own age is worthy of interpretation right now and there could be no finer place than a great seaport like Liverpool. . . . On the other hand, we want nothing 'Epsteinish...
Princeton University's campus, profuse with trees and shrubbery, arched vistas, a descending series of grassy levels patterned with Gothic buildings, is one of the most beautiful in the U. S. But the campus fronts on Nassau Street, main thoroughfare of a casually-built small town. Across the Street is a scraggly row of brick and wood structures, many of which have stood since Princeton undergraduates wore ornate waistcoats and grew full beards...
Assembling in the unused Gothic Senate chamber, literally under the shadow of a Bourbon throne, attended by experts and flanked by 100 newsgatherers, the 14 Council members sat about the Council table (brought especially from Geneva) for four days. From the galleries half the grandees of Spain and members of the Diplomatic Corps, watched the proceedings. Only once were they treated to a sharp word skirmish...