Word: arched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Winthrop Ames, one of our most selectively judicious producers, surrounded Mr. Arliss with a long and satisfactory company. Even in the raspingly British second act of the silly ass and arch girl sort, the players were usually above the manuscript. On the star's performance adjectives were tossed in an enthusiastic heap. He was furnished with opportunity to love, hate, eat, drink and die. These elemental attributes he interpreted with a gorgeous gusto, a decisive individuality which made the part one of Mr. Arliss's best since the days he did Disraeli...
...flourish, a bow, and the hat is swept on again. A cool survey of the arena, and the hero steps jauntily towards his victim. He arranges his muleta as he goes, balancing his sword ' above it with arch precision. Grace is everything. The watching thousands bate their breath to see such bravery in a mincing mayfly. He makes it seem the merest trifle to approach a snorting, bloody-eyed monster where it stands at bay, to halt six paces off and pose a second, waiting for the animal to come into position; to rise on tiptoe and make a dainty...
...middle of the yellow arena, with a blue arch of sky above, dressed in black and scarlet, stood a slim ama- teur matador. The bull charged. That matador took a single deliberate step aside. The bull hammered past. Into his path again stepped the matador. He danced, he mocked, he swung his scarlet cloak. But this bull was a thief, as they say; he "knew Latin." Drumming hoofs, a broken shout, a thud. "Maria. He is dead!" gasped the onlookers. So ended the last bullfight of Ignacio Zuloaga*, famed Spanish painter...
...million uncovered heads and the flutterings of handkerchiefs from the hands of the heads that were covered. On either side soldiers of the five Guards Regiments (Coldstream, Grenadier, Irish, Scots, Welsh), standing rigidly with presented arms, lined the streets from the Palace, along the Mall to the Admiralty Arch, down Whitehall, to Westminster...
...colleagues, led by his arch-enemy Grigori Zinoviev, Lord Protector of the Third Internationale, thereupon accused Comrade Trotzky...