Word: archaicism
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...gave William Howard Taft a job as cub reporter covering courts, who for 50 years was a power in the G.O.P., a sponsor and later an enemy of the celebrated Cox Gang, later a supporter of Mark Hanna. Most distinctive outward feature of the Enquirer is its curious, archaic style of headlines, suggestive of British and reminiscent of early U. S. journals. Example: BE MERCIFUL. Owen Young Urges...
Gradually yielding its splendor and dignity of archaic. Romanesque architecture to the picks of Kenneth John Conant '15, associate professor of Architecture and a corps of student assistants, the Abbey of Cluny, once the center of Middle Age Monasticism in historic Burgundy reveals again its age-old beauty...
...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...
Blind Mice. The all-female cast in this show is composed of 18 inmates of a working women's hotel. Such a situation has comparatively fresh dramatic potentialities, but the story is archaic and the fact that all dealings with the unseen men characters have to be carried on offstage strips the play of vigor. The main events are thus approached obliquely. When Miss Claiborne Foster wishes to convey the idea that her rich lover has deserted her, that her employer-the proprietor of the drugstore in which she works-has consented to marry her though she is pregnant...
...most U. S. collegians Oxford is a distant academic valhalla of stately ancient buildings where brilliant young men with mellifluent, clipped speech spend long days of leisure mixed with archaic studies; a temple of wit & learning, the bright fane of Anglo-Saxon civilization. Seldom does one of its paragons emerge actually to be seen and heard, but last week Princeton undergraduates had the privilege of observing and listening to the genuine Oxford article?pink-&-white, good-looking Randolph Churchill, 19, son of England's famed and effervescent Statesman Winston Churchill, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer...