Word: arched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convict awaits the sailing of the plodding 3,800-ton "hellship" La Martinière, formerly a German freighter, now outfitted with steel-girded cells and mutiny-suppressing hot-steam hose. Into her hold go Foreign Legion deserters, Algerian Spahis convicted of rape, French Indo-Chinese murderers, Circassian thieves, arch-crooks from Montmartre. The ship arrives in 50 or 60 days at St. Laurent, on the Maroni River dividing Surinam* and French Guiana, where after another brief internment, most convicts are assigned to a prison at Cayenne or Kourou or to any one of numerous jungle camps along the river...
...doesn't stand with its back to the wall." Although Low has carried on systematic campaigns against English politicians in the past, native good nature suffused his drawings of them: Eden always looked timid and well-meaning; Squire Baldwin crafty and battered but not dangerous; Lloyd George disarmingly arch and jolly even when, by Cartoonist Low's lights, he was up to no good. There is no such warmth in Low's caricatures of Chamberlain. His overhanging eyebrows matching the steep curve of his mustache, his cadaverous features alternately harried and self-righteous, he appears...
...week's end, N. E. A.'s delegates enthusiastically approved a resolution to seek the cooperation of the Legion "and other service organizations having constructive educational programs." But Dr. Gellermann's thesis had not been entirely squelched. Said the arch-conservative New York Herald Tribune: "Has the Legion ever distinguished itself by any intelligent or sustained stand for civil liberties, free speech or the rights of the individual? We doubt it. Not a pressure group? Why, it has been, on occasion, one of the most arrogant and powerful and vindictive of all the pressure groups. . . . If Doctor...
...Times's eminent French trained seal. A onetime textile manufacturer, Andre Maurois went into the more elegant business of writing and became a parlor philosopher with the glibness of an Emil Ludwig and the precious outlook of an H. L. Mencken. Last week he followed into the Academy arch-Royalist Charles Maurras, also elected within the month (TIME, June...
...take a picture. His fertile brain and nimble hands had produced a "fisheye lens," a hollow hemisphere of glass filled with liquid, which would focus a sweep of 180° on one plate. He decided to place himself beneath a bridge, photograph the underside of the bridge's arch from horizon to horizon. By the time he had finished setting up his mysterious-looking device, he had attracted a large crowd of gawpers. He snapped his picture, looked up with an expression of horror, cried...