Word: gothicized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lecture dealing with the problems of more local government. Mr. Percy A. Harrison, Director of Examinations in the Massachusetts Civil Service Department, will speak at that time in Harvard 6 on "Some Aspects of the Public Personnel Service." Finally, Professor Johnny Roosval will give an illustrated lecture on "Gothic Architecture in Sweden" at 4.30 o'clock in the Fogg Museum...
February 28--Gothic Architecture...
Five years ago there was only sand and a few pines on this spot. But Mr. Bok caused a slender Gothic tower, of pink Georgia marble and tan Florida coquina stone, to be erected. Delicately balanced in the top is the largest carillon in the U. S.? At the tower's base is a pool, surrounded by exotic trees and shrubs. Mr. Bok calls this place the "Taj Mahal of America." It was to dedicate this U. S. Taj that President Coolidge had gone to Florida...
Within, all is quiet, all is holy. Here many a bishop in splendid robes has walked down the longest Gothic nave in the world.* Here altar boys, long since dead, have bobbed in genuflections as they hurriedly passed the altar to bring a priest a garment or a book. Here for 800 years God has been worshipped in high and solemn services...
George Bray Barnard, sculptor extraordinary, is famed for his Gothic cloister in uptown New York City, where medieval sculpture and ornament abound. His works are scattered worldwide, varying in subject from The Descent from the Cross in Paris, to The God Pan on Columbia University's campus. In London stands his gaunt Abraham Lincoln, focus of livid controversy, of which Theodore Roosevelt said: "I have always wished I might...