Word: gothicized
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...Said he on his 40th wedding anniversary: "I believe the Lord sent me there so I could find my wife.") Then he served successively at two wealthy, influential parishes: Grace Church, Chicago; St. Thomas', New York. At the latter he reared what many a critic considers the loveliest Gothic church in the U. S., increased the annual income from $90,000 to $600,000, of which $550,000 went for purposes outside the parish...
...simply designed church for a simple people," says Finland's great expatriate, Eliel Saarinen-but it will cover an entire city block and cost some $600,000 (its equivalent in Gothic would cost an estimated 30% more). When finished early in 1942 it will house the religious activities of 1,500 Disciples of Christ in two severe, flat-roofed units joined by a two-story bridge across a sunken terrace and a 140-by-120 reflecting pool. And perhaps its sheer 166-foot tower will beacon religious architecture back into the advancing stream of history...
...first edition of his dictionary had been rescued. Old Bailey, scene of famous and infamous trials, was partially burned; the Temple, already battered by a dozen bombs, was set aflame; and the Inner Temple, sanctum of British law, had five of its buildings burning at once. Its great Gothic library was reduced to rubble...
Britons felt most keenly the destruction of the Guildhall, medieval town hall of London where for six centuries the great and illustrious have been honored with pageantry and much of the history of the British Empire has been made. Within the charred shell of its Gothic walls black-faced workmen pried under massive oaken beams searching for the familiar old figures of Gog and Magog, 14½-foot wooden grotesques who guarded the Guildhall...
...least 20 of Hearst's collections were outstandingly good, and five-armor, English furniture, English silver, Gothic tapestry, Hispano-Moresque pottery-ranked among the finest private collections in the world...