Word: arched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...waited for authentic news of this man's victory. For 16 months, the U. S. waited for its idol to come home and receive in person his righteous adulation. Some say that his welcome was the beginning of the spectacle era in the U. S.a wood and plaster triumphal arch in Manhattan (reputed to be "a labor of love"), massed flag waving and horn blowing, loving cups, a sword of honor from President McKinley, so much handshaking that the idol's hand became painfully swollen...
Secretary Amery, brusque, direct, arch-imperialist, uttered on this occasion bland words: "I deal in this office with 36 different governments, each entirely separate from the rest, each administratively, financially and legislatively self-contained. The whole system with its haphazard complexity and lack of coordination of any structural basis would not for a moment, I fancy, be tolerated by any of our more logical neighbors across the Channel. For all that I believe our system, or lack of system, has certain great advantages. It would be a profound mistake to scrap the essentially local and individual basis of our system...
...York State. * Each characteristic line, loop, arch, whorl of a set of fingerprints is numbered. The set is classified, can then be decoded for identification. †Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Browning, George Meredith, Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Ruskin, Kipling, Conrad, Hugh Waipole, Thomas Hardy, Walter de la Mare, Rupert Brooke, Henry James...
Because Hungarians are so reactionary that they retain the form of their government as a kingdom, although deprived of a king by the Allies, and because arch-reactionary Premier Bethlen has been continuously in office longer than any other European prime minister, there is strong likelihood that his new program of openly Fascistizing Hungary will be put through...
Like an extraordinary and super-legal bodyguard the Fascist Militia bristles round Signor Mussolini, a band of tried and loyal men, armed, and conscious that their one duty is to protect, obey and follow II Duce. Last week the code of this arch-Fascist volunteer corps was embodied into a "Decalogue for the Perfect Fascist Militia...