Word: arched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...faintest discernible motion to brush away a tear, but years of discipline asserted themselves. He braced up and adjusted his cowl about his shoulders, against the tiny suggestion of a Fall chill. Slowly he descended the steps to the water's edge, to the conceald spot under the graceful arch of the bridge that serves him in summer as an anchorite's cell, against the day when the ivory walls of Memorial Hall Tower would be brushed free of cobwebs and it for winter's occupancy...
What made this local news of extraordinary newsworthiness to Helenians was that they were reading it in their home-town newspapers for the first time in 90 days. Ever since the printers of the arch-Republican Record-Herald (evening) and the arch-Democratic Independent (morning) went on strike over wages in mid-May, the capital of Montana had to depend on bulletins, radio, out-of-town newspapers and grapevine gossip for its news. Last fortnight the printers' strike was settled (TIME, Aug. 20). Last week the Record-Herald and the Independent made their reappearance on the streets...
...Helena's union printers went on strike, asking higher wages. The arch-Democratic Independent (Montana's oldest) and the arch-Republican Record-Herald stopped publication...
...disinterestedly guided. . . . Frankly I cannot fathom the concern sometimes expressed in the use of one of the most ancient, democratic and venerable titles of the Christian Church. Nobody is fearful of an archdeacon. The most democratic people in the world have lived and prospered under the leadership of an arch-bishop...
...this prayerful ending a hush gripped the throng. Click. The King-Emperor had closed the gold switch during his speech. Slowly as he spoke the great curtain rolled away disclosing the arched entrance to Queensway. Amid wave on wave of cheering His Majesty drove with the Queen-Empress by his side through the gleaming new arch and down under the Mersey with transatlantic liners riding at anchor over his royal head...