Word: archaically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soldier's Code" [TIME, Aug. 29]: It's all very well for a bunch of archaic stuffed shirts, some from a Government-sponsored trade school (West Point), to say what captured fighting men should do; they are too old ever to be faced with the problem ... I flew 49 missions during World War II and was often briefed on P.W. status under the old (Geneva) rules ... To expect draftees to submit to the new code is to raise a new crop of "conchies." To expect men to resist the combination of physical and mental torture known...
...papers condemned such improper journalism. But the surprising fact in the whole situation was how carefully the respectable papers, without being so vulgar as to mention Townsend's name, had kept their readers up on the news. They did so by a sudden rash of articles about the archaic Royal Marriage Act which requires that Parliament shall have a year in which to disapprove of any marriage in the royal family. The Manchester Guardian learnedly explained that the act was passed by the slimmest of majorities in 1772 to control the marriages contracted by the libertine brothers of George...
...many more smaller ones. Time was when "blue ribbon" banks prided themselves on their "wholesale trade," and disdained any small accounts. The war and postwar-inspired rise of a great new middle-income group with tremendous income, purchasing power and appetite for consumer goods made these bankers' banks archaic...
...stubborn adolescent. Kirk Douglas is more at home in the acrobatics of his part than in its subtleties, and occasionally seems tempted to reach for a Tommy gun instead of a sword. Yet, like the others, he often responds to Director Mario Camerini's neat combination of archaic flavor and modern pace. Technicolor, deft costuming and set decoration help immeasurably in creating the dreamlike quality of mankind's heroic...
...hazards and furies of pre-Civil War life in the very language of those wonderful, distant days. His racy and ebullient yarns of plugging canal leaks, spiriting runaway slaves along the underground railway, and keeping books for a traveling circus are crammed with theologasters, dawpluckers, makebates, hoodledashers and such archaic huncamunca. His grandson's version of baseball in the Abner Doubleday country may not be so uproarious as James Thurber's rowdy recollections of the game in Columbus, Ohio. But his saga of Hop Bitters ("The Invalid's Friend& Hope"-alcoholic content: 40%), which Patent Medicine...