Word: archly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the vile epithets applied to Bolshevism perhaps the most odious is "International". The "Reds" are supposed to violate every feeling of national unity and to eradicate from their breasts every patriotic sentiment. Of this experiment of the arch anti-Bolshevists there can be but one explanation: the Fascists have turned missionaries. The world must be made safe for the new gospel of arrogant bourgeois nationalism. A cohort of eloquent gesticulators will be dispatched throughout Europe, and behold! the new era. When the whole continent turns Fascist, the international problem will be dead, and internal affairs will run like...
Rumors are wildly flying again of a political union between Austria and Germany. Considering the difficulty with which Bismarck ejected Austria from the Confederation such talk is astounding. Gone is his empire; gone the House which he patiently raised to great power; and now his arch-enemy Austria reappears amid the fold from which he drove it with blood and iron. But the wheel of fate which has crushed the works of his hand has likewise crushed Austria. Stripped of its power, its land, its resources, the once proud state looks to a weak Germany as its last hope...
However, since somebody must be blamed, the architects, engineers agreed on a name, a revered name, a name chiseled across the very plinth of the great arch of modern architecture, none other than the name of the builder of St. Paul's. Everyone, perhaps including the Dean himself, seized eagerly upon this suggestion. Even a diminutive and far from prominent member of the famed St. Paul's choristers got hold of the idea and made a rhyme about it which he passed around at choir practice behind the cover of a fat hymnbook. It seemed very funny because...
Olive Blakeney and Roy Elkins created the impression of rather convincing arch-conspirators. Their malefactions against "Dizzie" were almost successful and served to give a stimulating air of mystery. Anna Laying, as Lady Beacons-field, gave an exceedingly convincing interpretation of the fine English Lady who proved so helpful to her rather lonely husband. Houston Richards and Louis Leon Hall handled the finances of England well enough to get some distinction in the final court scene along with a host of minor characters who constituted almost the entire personel of the company. Even Hector, himself, helped in the closing scene...
Florence Mills shone far above the heads of the other principals. The audience welcomed her in advance and encored her to the echo. She put over her numbers with a clear, high voice, an arch swagger, and, like all the rest of the company, a world of vitality. Cora Green provided an acceptable contrast, and the gentlemen of the company were always ready to oblige with a laugh...