Word: archaical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...duplicate of Farmer Ohman's. In it were four pages about runes, and he found to his delight that the information in them would have enabled Ohman to carve the inscription on the Kensington stone. Its language, he decided, was ordinary Swedish embellished with just those "linguistic petrifacts" (archaic- features) that Ohman could have found in his encyclopedia...
...principals in Rob Roy, Actor Todd and Actress Johns, are the same Disney used in The Sword and the Rose-Todd was in Robin Hood too-and they play the man and maid with a pleasant innocence and archaic grace. Actors Gough and Justice, also in the previous pictures, are admirable swashbucklers both. The local types are nicely interpolated-a red-cheeked Gaelic extra makes such a vivid vernacular dither with a Highland air that she steals a big scene from the lovers...
...Frank Merriwell and the fun-loving Rover Boys. What finished the Tom Swift series was a combination of crushers which could as easily have done in Ulysses or Sir Lancelot. A world war and stranger-than-fiction real inventions had furnished competitive excitements that made Tom .seem a little archaic. The paper shortage did not help, and almost as disastrous was the decision of Author Victor Appleton, Tom's creator, to let his hero marry sweet, pert Mary Nestor. Any ten-year-old boy could have told him that girl mush and Tom Swift just...
...disappointments of the year was John Hersey's The Marmot Drive, the story of a Connecticut woodchuck hunt, full of murky meanings and pseudo-archaic Yankee lingo. One of the real surprises of the year was the belated bow in fiction of aged (81) Philosopher Bertrand Russell. His Satan in the Suburbs consisted of five stories whose weird plots and good-natured skepticism made for pretty good...
Last week Madrid's large Monarchist daily A.B.C. was astir with feminine indignation over Spain's archaic laws on women. The indignation was set off by the account of a Madrid housewife who for years worked hard to support a drunkard husband and, though abused by him, could not leave him, having no money, no relatives, no place to go. In the end, the husband stabbed her to death. "This poor creature," cried an impassioned columnist in A.B.C., "paid with her life for the injustices of law made by man for men . . . Let her sacrifices bear the fruits...