Word: arched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge was annoyed, very. Through the medium of the arch-Democratic and exceedingly militant New York World he learned that all was not well with another of the Government's oil leases with ill-famed Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair & colleagues. It was a lease on the Salt Creek field in Wyoming, adjacent to memorable Teapot Dome. It was a lease made by President Harding's Secretary Albert Bacon Fall and renewed by President Coolidge's whilom Secretary Dr. Hubert Work. It was a lease which Senator Walsh of Montana, famed oil inquisitor, had suspected and asked...
...arch-Democratic New York World pointed out, however, that Nominee Hoover had not yet said flatly that he favored Federal operation. The World laughed at the Scripps-Howard chain-papers and called the Hoover postscripts "shadow-boxing." Vexed but honest, the chain-papers admitted that the Hoover candor had not been perfect. They said: "It is difficult to understand why Hoover didn't say he was for government ownership and government operation of Muscle Shoals, or either or neither, instead of saying something else, then pointing to it and saying further, 'that means Muscle Shoals'; then, two days later, interpreting...
...very painful to observe that Lee Simonson's settings, in which a pointed arch at the back of the stage became a frame for pictures of the sky or country, and Wolfgang Zeller's curious songs, were far superior to the play itself. Possibly this was due to the dull fervors of translation; but the only epigram which Mephistopheles achieved, though he was forever trying, was this: "He died like a good Christian for he had much to repent...
...arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune went last week a letter from Ellery Sedgwick, distinguished editor of the Atlantic Monthly. Excerpts...
...Rodgers and Lorenz Hart managed to engender "Better Be Good to Me" and "I Must Love You," but they were neither lyrically nor musically up to standards of their Garrick Gaieties or A Connecticut Yankee. Helen Ford as Chee-Chee and Betty Starbuck as Li-Li-Wee were respectively arch and charming. George Hassell squealed and grunted in cagey fashion as the Grand Eunuch. Chee-Chee would be funnier if it did not so faithfully preserve its "you're mine and I love you" attitude toward the slimy joke of compulsory castration. The critics were shocked, and the decent...