Word: spire
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bowdoin College remembers Donald MacMillan as the member of '98 who shinnied up the lightning rod on King's Chapel spire to tear clown a flag that had been hoisted in derision of his class. Adventurous, athletic, he loved the sea where his Scotch grandfathers had sailed, where his father was lost when Donald was 9. He would talk of going some day to the North Pole and made a collection of books on the Arctic during the years when he was successively principal of a Maine preparatory school, a classics instructor near Philadelphia and a physical director...
...letters a most scholarly little tract. And the end? Clothes, like the appendix, are a useless relic of evolution. For modesty, for protection, for display, we dress. These purposes are outworn. The new man will be naked as Heaven's cherubim; he will build towers to which the Spire of Salisbury were but a wand...
Those who have gazed at the tall spire of the Strasbourg Cathedral, shrouded in Gothic mystery, remember that this is the place where Goethe received his education. They will remember that the Provinces were, until the time of Louis XIV, a part of the Holy Roman Empire, that from 1871 until 1918 they were part of the old German Empire. Gazing around the streets, these people will find German signs faintly obliterated by French; they will become conscious every now and then that German is being spoken by the passerby. The opponents of M. Herriot ask: "How can a country...
...touch of green, rising from lawn to treetop beneath a little pink spire, where three high roads cross, marks the spot where English begins to be spoken as one walks west from the lower East side of Manhattan: St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie...
...Mason, J. N. McClure, L. H. Peters, A. A. Plaza, G. W. Walker, S. Logan W. E. Sodgwick, H. D. White, H. M. Floming, C. K. Gordon, B. W. Huiskamp, J. B. Wilson, L. Rose, R. A. White, O. H. Emerson, C. C. Hewitt, W. B. Brewster, S. S. Spire, C. F. Albert...