Word: archaicism
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...Inauguration Day (Jan. 20): the committee expected 750,000 visitors, 30 floats. He rode up to the Hill for a birthday luncheon for Speaker Sam Rayburn in the Speaker's dining room, flabbergasted Congressmen by popping into the House chamber for the last dull rites of that archaic ceremony -counting the electoral votes. Cracked he, as he left: "It looks like I'm ahead...
Imperfect Echo. To most citizens (and to many of the electors themselves) the whole archaic process seemed as absurd and awkward as starting a jet engine with an 18th Century flint and steel...
...didn't seem very depressed about it. When Sam Goldwyn fired her after she had pleaded illness in postponing a New York publicity junket ("the day is over when stars can get away with this sort of behavior"), Teresa Wright said she would never sign another standard "archaic . . . and . . . absurd" movie contract, because it treated actors like cattle. The exchange of unpleasantries happily coincided with a new Goldwyn picture called Enchantment (see below), starring Teresa Wright...
...Pair of Garters. His Manhattan studio on 18th Street has a dusty, comfortable, behind the scenes look; it is littered with circus costumes, antlers, decoy ducks, a trumpet, a mandolin, a pair of pink garters. Photographs of archaic Greek statues share the walls with theater posters, cutouts of full-blown society belles of the '90s, and shiny dragoon helmets...
...necessary to recapture the country. But such a reconstitution of the party will require support from the rank and file. For example, if the new Republicans recognize publicly that Lord Keynes advanced some suggestions of great utility in managing a mid-twentieth century economy and if this outrages the archaic, provincial mind of Representative Martin, the outcome within the party may turn upon the reaction and behavior of the faithful. If they back politicians like Martin, giving him aid and comfort in cases such as this, then we are likely to remain out of power for a long time...