Word: arching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drinkers. Exclaimed Washington's Dry Senator Jones, author of the Five & Ten Law: "Certainly we ought to know where they [the 'loggers] were going in the office building." Senate Leader Watson spoke about "not guarding the morals of my fellow Senators." Iowa's Senator Brookhart, arch-tattler, shouted his determination of learning the S. O. B. customers of Cassidy and Goldberg...
Shocked were ladies of the Spanish court, and particularly Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie (granddaughter of Britain's arch-stickler, Queen Victoria) when Miss Mary Pickford and Mr. Douglas Fairbanks were actually received on terms of cordial and convivial intimacy by sporting King Alfonso XIII's closest pal, exalted Jacobo Stuart Fitz-James, Duke of Alba, Constable of Navarre and 14 times a grandee of Spain (TIME...
...Papal thunder rumbled over Western Europe, set off sympathetic detonations. In Paris, the French Protestant Federation held a service, protested against Russian persecution. Present was Dr. Eulage, the Russian Orthodox Metropolitan of Paris. Grand Rabbi Israel Levy of France sent a representative. In London, the arch-Tory, arch-Anglican Morning Post conceded: "We shall not in this case complain if the Archbishop of Canterbury follows the lead of Rome...
...last week he was obliged to pledge his support to a policy most peasants hate, the project to exterminate the kulak or "moneyed peasant" as a class (TIME, Jan. 13). Just now this is the thing closest to the heart of cold, quiet Dictator Josef Stalin, the arch-proletarian who is also making Russia stride...
...famous war-lord and a gypsy dancer, and maintains the reputation of both to the best of his ability. His main feats are saving the remains of a rapidly degenerating Hapsburg Empire through the medium of his mercenary soldiers, insulting an emperor and jilting an arch-duchess, marrying a gypsy girl (the trait seems to run in the family) with a rather lax set of morals, destroying the Hapsburg Empire again, dispensing with the gypsy accoutrements, reinsulting the emperor, falling in love with the afore-mentioned jilted arch-duchess, winning her, and finally, to cap an excellent picture, restoring...