Word: archaicism
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...Titfield Thunderbolt (Rank; Universal-International) will carry railway enthusiasts on a satisfying junket through the past century of British railroading. When nationalization dooms the unprofitable branch line running from rural Titfield to the market town of Mallingford. the indignant citizens of Titfield take over the archaic rolling stock, with the vicar serving as engineer, the village ne'er-do-well as fireman, and a local squire as brakeman. An alcoholic landowner (Stanley Holloway) supplies the necessary money on being promised that the early-morning train will carry a bar-and-buffet...
...rich combination of high romance and low melodrama, the picture has a fine archaic atmosphere. Examples: the brilliantly Technicolored pageantry of a court dance, a royal game of shuttlecock, Henry VIII riding to the hunt, a contest between French and English wrestling champions at Windsor Castle...
...three centuries of academic grubbing, scholars have tidied up and clarified William Shakespeare's manuscripts, making archaic words intelligible to the ordinary reader. But the bard's most dedicated fans want their Shakespeare straight. One such was Herbert Farjeon, a British amateur scholar whose special dread was the day when Shakespeare would be read in "Nu Spelin and Nu Punctuashun." In 1933 he brought out not only the handsomest but the best-edited Shakespeare in existence...
First came an enormous bronze "crater" (vase) weighing 350 lbs. On its handles were busts of gorgons intertwined with snakes. There were also sculptured horsemen, chariots and foot soldiers. The crater is probably Greek, but its conical lid with the statue of a robed woman is more archaic...
...United States today, the movement to get rid of legal murder is linked to an attempt to make prisons what they should be; rehabilitation institutions to cure the criminally ill. Osborne, Lewis E. Lawes, and Miriam Van Waters the rehabilitation concept opposes the archaic idea that criminals should be punished for punishment's sake...