Word: splendidly
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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When will American movie audiences be let into the secret that there are splendid express liners flying the stars and stripes on the North Atlantic? And when will movie producers decide that this American enterprise deserves support...
...fabric (rubble and cut stone) of Cluny carried on the tradition of the archaic Romanesque, while giving the promise of the typical fabric of the twelfth-century Romanesque and suggesting more vaguely an articulated structure of the Gothic period. The splendid decoration of the building centered upon a great frescoed Christ in the principal apse--a painting probably inspired by Italy and more remotely Byzantine and Early Christian work, but there was in addition a marvelous profusion of sculpture, representing the Romanesque tradition newly formed under the auspices of the monks...
...with an artist who later abandoned her, returns to her husband, son and daughter after 20 years. She finds her son in love with a model, her daughter in love with her seductive artist, her husband in a quandary. The final unraveling of all this is perhaps overlong, but splendid are the queenly gesturings, the three velvet dresses of Actress Cowl; the noble rascality of Leon Quartermaine as the painter...
Murphy has made seven professional trips to China in the last 16 years. He has become greatly interested in Chinese architecture and sociological conditions there. He feels, however, that even though the country offers splendid opportunities, only experienced men should undertake any work in China...
...years ago the young men of Yale wandered through the splendors of Harkness Memorial Quadrangle and marveled. They drew inspiration from other works of Architect James Gamble Rogers, praised with President James Rowland Angell the "splendid uprush" of collegiate Gothic. There were few iconoclasts to denounce the theatrical charm of Wrexham Court and its tower ("copy of Wrexham Tower, England, built 1506"), or the artificially-cracked window panes and impressive, scholarly gloom of Harkness chambers which resulted from the building being designed principally from the outside. Originally intended to give U. S. education a hoary, spiritual aspect, neo-Gothic...