Word: nave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...20th Century Producer Max Reinhardt. Elaborate was the similar festival the earnest Bishop arranged for Canterbury. Throughout the week, Dr. Faustus by Kit Marlowe, who used to lie and dream on Canterbury's hills, was alternated with Everyman. Other attractions were concerts in the Cathedral's nave, serenades in the cloisters, chamber music in the chapter house. Newsreeling cinemen jostled through the crowds. Every event went out to all Britain by radio...
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...
...cathedral idea enthralls the minds of U.S. tycoons, spreads from cinema to insurance potentates. Therefore when famed Architect Cass Gilbert designed the new $21,000,000 New York Life Insurance building he Gothicized its decoration, planned its gigantic foyer in the cruciform shape of a nave and transepts. Like a huge stalagmite the structure stands on the site of the old Madison Square Garden, lifts its glinting spire 617 feet above the pavements. In a banquet hall on the 14th floor a dedicatory ceremony was held, last week. President Coolidge, button-punching at the White House, flooded the feast with...
...Putnam '30 ranked next to Nave, of the Army, among the quarterbacks, David Guarnaccia '29 led the array of halfbacks, including Captain A. E. French '29. About a dozen men were named for each position...
...impossible to exaggerate the seriousness of our position. Sergeant Nave's detachment (you remember they used to call him 'Heady' or 'Spike' Nave back at the Point) is down to its last thesaurus. There of our casulties are in the romance language division. We are being shelled as I write. The sulcide squad, as we call the English department, was virtually annihilated at 3.30 P.M. on Tuesday, when an enemy Gotha let fall a flight or poisoned shakespears. My aide, Corporal Jones, (he hasn't done so well since he left the Point after his team lost to Harvard...