Word: arching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Possibly Artist David painted a round arch because he liked it better. Much more probably he was guilty of a confusion common when scholarly enthusiasm was seldom reinforced by research. An anachronism unmentioned by alert Reader Weinberg: an inkwell with a hinged top. However. Artist David was careful to paint a krater (drinking-bowl) of the right shape, a lamp of the right proportion, a chain with figure-eight links, and a pen & scroll of correct design. He followed convention in putting curly hair on Socrates and all his companions...
Leading executives of Snorkey & Co. indicted last week were: Joe Fusco, business manager of the syndicate's beer department; Bert Delaney, superintendent of manufactures; Steve Swoboda, veteran brewmaster. Snorkey is liable to two years imprisonment, $10,000 fine if convicted. Federal punishment now hanging over the head of the arch criminal: 34½ years in prison, $90,000 in fines. So impressed was Snorkey by the magnitude of the threatened punishment, it was said last week, that he offered to "compromise" the case with the Government by payment of $4,000,000. But officials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
Death Comes to the Arch Hippo...
Ever since a huge hippopotamus waddled 500 miles from its natural habitat in Zululand and dropped amicably in upon a town-councillors' meeting at Port St. Johns, and into a hotel lobby at Durban. South Africa (TIME, May 5, 1930), that hippo has been an arch hippo, worshipped by the natives as a god, protected by local legislation throughout the Union. Somebody dubbed it "Hubert" and the name was accepted by all uninquisitive South African citizens...
Hubert the Arch Hippo usually dwelt in the Umzimvubu River, occasionally, however, foraging over the land. Last week Hubert was wading and snorting in the Keiskama River when some sacrilegious native, scofflaw Afrikander or bloodthirsty American crept up and slew the beast with a bullet over each...