Word: gothicized
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...Department does not think that all U.S. elms will die of disease, as did nearly all chestnut trees a generation ago. It does believe that the Gothic elm avenues in many towns will disappear, and it advises city landscapers that elms arc poor investment...
Combining as they did the sparkling intimacy of a lady's jewelry box and (at their best) the monumental force of Gothic cathedral sculpture, Nottingham alabasters were sought after from Italy to Iceland-until "idolatry"-hating Oliver Cromwell...
...plan first produced the central quadrangle, built in Gothic style, with its maze of passageways and courtyards and its myriad of minute designs in stone, over which reigns the Harkness Memorial Tower. Here we find a peculiar liberal trend, for the Tower sexton mounts thrice daily to sound the chimes, not at the hours ordinarily prescribed for the sounding of chimes, but at noon, 6, and 10 o'clock. Those accustomed to the bedlam let loose over Cambridge every quarter hour, and sometimes at 20 minutes to the hour, might note this with approval...
...Also in Gothic is the Payne-Whitney Gymnasium, a cathedral-like structure which houses among other things, the original Handsome Dan, stuffed and mounted, and one of the country's finest indoor swimming pools with excellent seating accommodations for spectators. So numerous are the tiers of seats, placed almost vertically one above the other, that from the bottom one feels sunk in an enormous pit and from the top one has the sensation of an aerial view of the water below...
Tacked onto these and other Gothic edifices are several buildings in Colonial style, an incongruity heightened in the courtyard of one particular College which is half Colonial and half Gothic. And one finds, too, in the midst of the University buildings, a plain red-brick New Haven high school, from whence sprung Levi Jackson...