Word: archangelic
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...Archangel was having a flood and the train had to stop at a nearby village, where we transferred to a river steamer. There was a mile and a half of deep mud between the station and the dock, with no transportation. There were porters at the station, but they knew their own value and the prices they were asking were outrageous. To show brotherhood, my baggage was distributed by the discharged sailor, who took the heaviest piece himself along with all his own; and the trek began. It was cold and muddy and miserable, but the psychological atmosphere was warm...
This week, what with Mister's advance sale crowding $150,000, its angels hoped to get their first dividend. Tobacco Magnate Howard Cullman, Broadway's archangel, could tell them all how lucky they were. By pedantic calculation of risks, he made the black on only six of the 15 shows he had backed during the 1945-46 season. Three were dead losses; six were still to be produced...
...prosaic, reasonable book about Poet John Dryden* provoked the New York Post's Reviewer Sterling North, who has been similarly provoked before, to a brisk whirl of Drydenesque heroic couplets. In 32 rough (but sometimes very ready) didactic verses, he reproduced a spat between "Seraph Pro" and "Archangel Con," before a Heavenly Critics' jury for the Book of the Aeon Club...
...biggest, most meaningless election on earth. From Archangel to Erivan, from Kënigsberg to the Kurils, almost 100 million citizens of great Russia voted this week in their first national election in eight years...
...carving ship models and looking at the stars through a telescope. Pope Leo XIII created him a Knight of the Order of Pius for publishing his biography. In later years, Uncle Sam once said acidly: "If the Pope made Webster a knight, he ought to have made him an archangel...