Word: archly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like sort is the problem that has long confronted the Federal courts and square-jawed Thomas James Walsh, Arch-inquisitor of the Senate Committee on Public Lands, in the strange transactions of three oil companies remotely connected with the Oil Scandals. The ultimate object of reviewing these transactions is to expose the supposed source of the Liberty Bonds which Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair is known to have given Albert Bacon Fall, defamed Secretary of the Interior who leased Teapot Dome to Sinclair. But the immediate motive, when Inquistor Walsh renewed his inquiries last week, seemed compounded as much of professional...
When Jefferson Davis was President of the Southern Confederacy, he and Robert E. Lee were accustomed to attend services in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Richmond, Va. The most fashionable church in the South, its pews were filled every Sunday with arch, starched ladies, who often took only a perfunctory interest in the services, and elaborately gallant grandees who, with some show of munificence, dropped their confederate greenbacks into the collection plate. St. Paul's is still a fashionable church. Its rector, the Rev. Dr. Beverley Dandridge Tucker Jr., last week pleased most of his parishioners, surprised...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. So bland and calm was the satire of Author Anita Loos' famed opus, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, that, when translated into cinematic dialect, it seemed probable that only a faint echo of its hilarity would remain. Such is not the case. Ruth Taylor as the very arch criminal, Lorelei Lee, is so coy, and cogently appealing that it becomes easy to believe in her conquest first of the vulgar but munificent Mr. Eisman, then of the wan but even more wealthy Henry Spoffard. Dorothy Shaw, the hard-boiled bantam brunette who assists the capricious avarice of Lorelei...
...seems that the potent King of Ur of the Chaldees, according to the vogue of 3500 B. C., had ordered a butchery to make a stage setting, so that he would not be lacking in entertainment after death. Unfortunately, some arch enemy of the King spoiled the scheme by stealing the royal body from the grave...
...education. Consequently there is a lack of culture, a fact which renders Mr. Mencken's "verbal virtuosity" possible, and results in the creative instinct being stified in a welter of "idealism." Professor Babbitt in his cool analysis of facts succeeds in being distinctly more pessimistic and convincing than his arch-opponent in the lists of contemporary criticism...