Word: archly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Spoliation? Debate on the Government bill for state regulation and unification of the electrical industry evoked serious opposition from the Government's own ranks. Sir Charles Wilson, arch Conservative, nicknamed "the Kaiser of Leeds," flayed the bill: "It envisions "something worse than nationalization?spoliation!" None the less, a vote of 325 to 127 carried the measure past its second reading...
...English being notoriously an incomprehensible race, Americans must be content with understanding that they cannot understand them. This book is as English as Huntley and Palmer's. Its jokes are English in their unobstrusive dreariness. Its pages abound with Dickensy eccentrics and Arch bald Marshallish country life, and, in addition, there is an unmistakable flavor of Kipling and Ian Hay and Conan Doyle...
...restoration to the throne. This is the background. There are few characters. These, saints and sinners alike, register their reactions with rational fidelity except in the crises of the narrative. Precisely when they need to be most convincing they become incredible. One only, Protos, mastermind of the plot, arch-rogue and conspirator, reveals through all his many disguises a living, breathing man, as admirable a villain as ever emerged from an inkwell...
There is now on exhibition at the School of Architecture, in the Hall of Casts at Robinson Hall, a set of pencil drawings and water colours by Ralph Warner Hammett, S.B., M. Arch. Mr. Hammett was a graduate in Architecture form the University of Minnesota and in 1923 received the degree of Master in Architecture from Harvard. A year later, he was awarded the Nelson Robinson Travelling Fellowship, and the sketches now on view were made during his travels on this Fellowship. They cover a wide range of subjects, though of course the artist's interests were primarily architectural...
...feet square. The massiveness of the tower will be relieved by slender lancet windows medieval ornament and allegorical sculpture. In front of the Book Tower will be the entrance tower, slightly less than half as tall and wide. The entrance will have the shape of a tall carved arch with ornamental iron gates. The beauty of the smaller arch will be greatly enhanced by numerous exquisite stained glass windows...