Word: parthenon
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Last week when Architect Wright turned up in Pittsburgh, newshawks took him on a tour of the city. Passing over slums, mills, grimy houses, he fixed on the new Mellon Institute, which looks like the Parthenon, snorted: "That's what happens when men get rich and bring Greece to Pittsburgh." Of University of Pittsburgh's Gothic, skyscraping Cathedral of Learning: "The most stupendous 'Keep off the Grass' sign I've even seen...
...Nashville, Tenn., Lecturer Ralph Pearson inadvertently included in a lantern slide lecture of the world's artistic monstrosities a slide of Nashville's own replica of the Parthenon. The audience, socialite young women of the Ward-Belmont School, stanchly applauded...
...Averoff had been sunk; that the rest of the fleet had gone over to the rebels; that the Averoff had shot down two loyal planes; that a man named Anthony Fix was financing the revolution; that the rebels had advanced halfway to Athens; that they had bombarded the Parthenon. The Government was not "crushing" the revolution but as time passed without a rebel victory the morale and the chances of the Venizelos cause slowly faded. At week's end the weather cleared and the Government launched an actual offensive across the Struma, with heavy artillery, cavalry, infantry and machine...
...Parthenon," Professor Chase, Fogg Large Room...
...study in Paris, Professor Conant will proceed to Jugo-Slavia to study the Byzantine churches of the 13th and 14th centuries, peculiar to the Balkan peninsula, under the guidance of the Jugo-Slavian government. From here he will go to Athens to take part in the excavation of the Parthenon, and will then return to the Abbey of Cluny. On returning from Europe he hopes to publish a survey of the architecture of the Balkan churches, which have received little attention from archeologists...