Word: corinthian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shallow, olive-green Galveston Bay, sunburned Harry C. Melges Jr., 29, a boatbuilder from Lake Geneva, Wis., won none of the eight races in the 20½-ft. Corinthian class sloops, but finished no worse than fourth in six to edge Warner Willcox of New Rochelle, N.Y., 45½-45¼, take the eighth Mallory Cup, symbol of the North American sailing championship. Said Sailor Melges: "I played it straight. No gambling. No chances...
...crow's-feet wrinkles of half a century spent peering at sky and sea. Ruddy and fit in his natty yacht-club blazer, Cornelius Shields (TIME cover, July 27, 1953) was every inch a blue-water skipper as he relaxed last week in Long Island's Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club and started to instruct 33 experienced sailors about his happy...
...history-steeped halls of the Kremlin, where Czars were crowned, the 1,378 comrade Deputies of the newly elected Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. assembled amid all the panoply and portent of a Communist coronation. Kleig lights blazed down from the Corinthian capitals of St. Andrew's Hall; diplomats and newsmen packed the galleries, photographers jammed the aisles. At one minute past 5 o'clock, the top half-dozen Communist bosses entered from the side, led by bald Nikita Khrushchev with his two Orders of Lenin gleaming from his dark lapel. Joining Russian-fashion in the applause...
...years, Selfridge's great Portland stone facade with its massive Corinthian columns has dominated Oxford Street, one of the city's greatest shopping centers; its aggressive merchandising and flamboyant promotions have changed the pace of British retailing. Second largest store in London,* Selfridge's has little of the snob appeal of its competitors. Said one regular customer: "In Fortnum & Mason's you feel ill at ease without a mink, at Harrods you feel uncomfortable without a hat, but at Selfridge's you feel at home in a cotton dress and sandals." It comes closer...
Most church architecture in the U.S., writes Journalist Georges Fradier, "may evoke an English cathedral, a Corinthian temple or a bathhouse, but the interior is always the same: that of a third-rate movie palace . . . Varnished benches present a comfortable resting place for faithful buttocks. A drawing-room organ emits sugared water. A pulpit . . . two or three pots of flowers, that is all the decoration. Some temples retain an altar, but this outmoded object serves only to support a still larger number of flower pots...