Word: archly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commander Mabie cried: "Why parade the grandson of an arch traitor up the street dressed in the uniform of his grandfather with the insignia of the dishonored Confederate States on the sword and sash? . . . We try to forget the Civil War, but they still remember it in the South...
...enliven the cautious conversations at Rome, last week, came a fire eating, swashbuckling editorial from L'Impero, an arch-Fascist news organ which performs the sometimes useful function of a watch-puppy which can bark but not bite. Barked L'Impero...
...potent standing Army, a potent Navy. Then he tore into his surest spellbinder, G. O. P. iniquities. He called Secretary Mellon a blasphemer and Candidate Hoover a Britisher. Raising his hand with terrible deliberation, he intoned: "I charge President Coolidge with misfeasance in office. . . . He kept this arch criminal Harry Daugherty at the head of the Department of Justice . . . Calvin Coolidge has done the bidding of the selfish interests every moment of his public life...
...Manhattan, the office of theatrical producer Arch Selwyn triumphantly announced that Producer Selwyn in London recently had acquired the U. S. rights to Dawn...
After this, the chase begins in earnest. There is an excellent scene in a signal tower wherein the very arch criminal actually appears, in coy and terrifying disguise, to prove that he can wreck playgoers' nerves as well as express trains. At the end of a somewhat talky mystery play, which will, however, cause the susceptible to shiver, the wrecker makes known his identity and jumps out a window...