Word: arching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the War the Londonderrys with drew upstairs into their own attic, turned the rest of Londonderry House into a hospital. To the Marchioness and to her arch-Tory husband in those days J. Ramsay MacDonald was "that Pacifist!" ? the lowest of socialist scum. As late as 1929, Lord Londonderry publicly hoped that Prime Minister MacDonald would lose his parliamentary seat in Seaham, where his miner constituents dig Londonderry coal. Two years later Lord Londonderry exploded that the last Labor Cabinet headed by Scot MacDonald "is clinging like limpets to office . . . unfit to govern...
...June 1864, a Kansas Senator and a Confederate general, himself a onetime U. S. Senator, planned to have both sides declare an armistice, march united against the French interlopers in Mexico, thus put an end to fraternal bloodshed and reunionize the Union. Only a cunning Washington correspondent of arch-Abolitionist Publisher Horace Greeley prevented them from selling the scheme to President Lincoln...
Conversation Piece (words & music by Noel Coward; Arch Selwyn & Harold B. Franklin, producers). Like race horses, playwrights are handicapped according to their past performances. If Conversation Piece were the work of a newcomer, critics would probably have acclaimed it as bright, charming entertainment, brimming with wit. tinkling with melody. But versatile Noel Coward has done better before. Matched with This Year Of Grace or Bitter Sweet, the latest Coward musical piece is at a disadvantage...
Continental Varieties (Arch Selwyn and Harold B. Franklin, producers) smoothly exhibits a group of European music-hall celebrities, performing, one by one. their tony specialties. Dressed in blue velvet, perched dramatically on a piano, Lucienne Boyer sings her Parisian torch songs (TIME, Oct. 8). Vicente Escudero clicks his Spanish heels, cas tanets and fingernails, accompanied by a troupe of wriggling gypsies. A fat, sad-faced Russian named Raphael makes a concertina, scarcely larger than a sausage, whisper like a violin. A magician named De Roze refreshes his audience by pouring, from a pitcher which appears to con tain pure water...
...double-breasted blue coat and dove-grey trousers, a gentleman renowned for candor descended on Washington last week to sing anew an old song. Since 1918, when he was Commander of the A. E. F. Air Force, General William ("Billy") Mitchell has been U. S. military aviation's arch-critic. Now, as a witness in the Federal Aviation Commission's investigation, which last week turned mostly to War, Billy Mitchell looked once more upon Army aviation and found it bad. Chief target for his scorn was the Army's performance in carrying airmail. This he characterized...