Word: spire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such a design would have a spire set in the middle of the front, that is on the long side of the building, facing toward Widener Library. An apse would be placed at the corresponding point on the other side of the building...
...Oxford "rags" none was ever more successful than the occasion upon which an expert undergraduate steeplejack poised, upon the topmost pinnacle of a memorial spire, far beyond the reach of troglodytic municipal navvies, a common porcelain toilet article...
Throughout England this great wind, so easily overcome by the airplane, blew down 150 telephone lines, blew up floods from several rivers, blew a steeplejack off the spire of St. Helen's Church, London, killing him instantly, injured 300 persons, killed 19 beside the poor steeplejack...
Octagonal. The University of Pennsylvania last week sounded a novel note in U. S. collegiate architecture. Designs for its new auditorium, seating 2,500, have been changed to octagonal perpendicular Gothic, of solid yet soaring effect, somewhat ecclesiastical, topped by a gossamer-thin spire which rises sharp from the pointed apex of a central square tower...
...wholly permissible. Similarly, the macabre, the delicately gruesome, of which Miss Lowell was so fond, is to be found quite as handily in a neurotic seafarer's terror of growing grass, or in a drawling village dracula, as in the rat-runs of a cathedral's Gothic spire. As always, there are stunning eccentricities. Having used "apotheosis" in one of her lines, Miss Lowell hastened to end the next with "bulldozed...