Word: medievalists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sake. Then Architect Goodhue went to Boston where he soon became the partner of Ralph Adams Cram in a firm (Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson) destined to rank with such partnerships as McKim, Mead & White or Carrere and Hastings. Architect Cram was and is a devout, learned Episcopalian Gothicist, medievalist. Architect Goodhue soon returned to Manhattan to superintend the firm's office there. A rift developed between the partners. The inventive Goodhue Gothic and the Cram Gothic - orthodox archaeological - could not go hand in hand. In 1914 Architect Goodhue began practice for himself. He then did his most noted work, including...
...Author. Dominic Bevan Wyndham Lewis arrived in the U. S. last week, was greeted and dined by Manhattan writer-folk. He is of Welsh-Irish ancestry, lives in St. Germain outside Paris, sends a regular column of comment to the London Daily Mail. He is an authoritative medievalist, a tireless scholar who disclaims his labors in his disdain for watery-veined pedants. He hates the "arty." His distant cousin is the more-famed Wyndham Lewis, vorticist, painter, novelist (Tarr), philosopher (Time and Western Man), a versatile, experimental da Vinci of the modern art world. Both are World War veterans...
Ralph Adams Cram, Boston architect, medievalist, "high-church" Episcopalian. Reason: "To express my own disgust at the ignorance and superstition now rampant . . . this recrudescence of blatant bigotry...
...America going to renounce its cardinal principle of freedom of thought and religious belief? The hard-won victories of the early days will be meaningless and in vain, if the rabid Fundamentalists succeed in foisting the chaos of medievalist upon the land. The great advance of civilization in the last fifty years has been due in overwhelming measure to two things which this cataclysm would utterly destroy--intellectual freedom and the advance of science...
...only other member of the party known to be present was Lord Hugh Cecil (Lord Robert's brother), dubbed by Lady Astor " our leading medievalist" on account of his anti-feminist attitude. Said Lord Hugh...