Word: gothicized
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...Socialists.* It was noticed that as the Socialist Lord Chancellor, Sir John Sankey, knelt and presented the speech his hand trembled. Grasping the document firmly the King-Emperor began to read in a voice which, when he was not clearing his throat, rang loudly and distinctly through the oblong, Gothic hall. Excerpts...
...entire nation became Barnard-conscious when a replica of his great gaunt statue of Abraham Lincoln was erected in Manchester, England, to celebrate a century of British-U. S. peace. In 1925 John Davison Rockefeller Jr. bought for $600,000 The Cloisters, the beautifully arranged collection of Gothic sculpture and woodcarving which Sculptor Barnard had assembled. Mr. Rockefeller presented it as an annex to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Billings estate on God's Thumb, the rambling stone stable of which Sculptor Barnard used as a studio, though purchased by Mr. Rockefeller in 1917, was leased to Sculptor Barnard...
...Haven, Nov. 3--Yale's million-dollar Gothic buildings were made the butt of an attack today by the Harkness Hoot, literary magazine sponsored by two Eli undergraduates. Today's issue was the second the Hoot has published...
...Hoot also gibed at the "girder-Gothic" which its editor claims has turned the library into a "fortress." The architects are severely criticized for squandering money on "bogus Elizabethan mansions" for students who have no desire to live in them...
Because one church was not enough to honor the meekest of medieval men, the gothic builders of Assisi built two churches to St. Francis, one on top of the other. Princess Giovanna decreed last week that her marriage should take place not in the larger, airier upper church, but in the lower, holier one beneath, whose high altar covers the saint's tomb...