Word: archly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arch-Democratic New York World-perhaps as a matter of interest, perhaps as a sly play upon the superstitions of its readers -said: "Acceptance of the Frothingham residence as campaign headquarters was made on the same day that word was received that Mr. Frothingham had died suddenly on his yacht while cruising off the coast of Maine...
...reporter for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune spied the Roosevelts and, in his copy that night, he wrote: "His [Mr. Roosevelt's] infirmity made it impossible for him to battle the crowd for a place in the Assembly Chamber." The Herald Tribune headlined: "Nominator, Crippled, Is Unable to Fight Crowds to Get Inside...
...meeting of the School Board, J. Lewis Coath, its former president and the arch-enemy of William McAndrew, unexpectedly argued against the new textbooks. Soon voted down, he later confessed that his resistance had been due to a desire to "hang up a record." Out of Chicago schools were ruled: Modern History, by Hayes and Moon; Founders of Freedom in America, by Corson and Cornish; History of the American People, by Mc-Laughlin; Story of Our Country, by West & West; School History of the United States, by Hart; and An American History, by Muzzey. One other chronicle which had been...
...reports. Typical of this class are cadaverous Ray Tucker, who boils around after Hoover for the New York Telegram; James O'Donnell Bennett, a quick-eared conversationalist, who watches Nominee Smith for the Chicago Tribune; and Edwin S. Macintosh, a Southern gentleman, who, representing the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, lately got photographed sitting casually next to Nominee Hoover in a campfire circle...
...therefore be censured, but added that the procedure ought to be modified to protect from embarrassment or indignities innocent persons summoned to the Yard for questioning. Promptly the recommended modifications were ordered introduced at Scotland Yard by special fiat of the Home Secretary, Sir William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks (Arch-Conservative). The minority report, signed by a Laborite, flayed Scotland Yard for administering an indefensible and scandalous Third Degree, accused police inspectors of collusion and prevarication, and expressed the opinion that Inspector Collins, who grilled Miss Savidge, had deliberately twisted her replies in a misleading manner for purposes of police record...