Word: archly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President laughed out loud when he heard that the returns were: "Coolidge, 909; Davis, 630" in a certain ward in the city of Gulf port (Miss.) where resides the Hon. Pat. Harrison, arch-scoriator of the Senate and the Keynote of the Democratic Convention which "flayed the Republicans alive...
...Catherine" must not stay. Societies whose fervent patriotism is above question are rallying around the president of the National Security League, who has taken the leadership to expel Countess Catherine Karolyi of Hungary, one time associate of Bela Kun. None know so well as these arch-guardians of national safety by what a slim thread it hangs in these times of deceptive calm. One puff from an inflamed Bolshevik and the whole political and social structure will come tumbling about the ears of hapless multitudes in this peaceful and contented land. A stitch in time will save, not nine...
...Never has history shown a mon arch more deceitful and less powerful than the cruel and faithless puppet of the Spanish throne. Men are judged by their company. Alfonso's greatest friend is the only man who surpasses him in ignominy, if not in stupidity - Primo Rivera. He is a companion in the King's debauch and has dirtied the uniform in every kind of adventure and every haunt of vice...
This decision was known when the Republican Convention assembled at Rochester. Senator James W. Wadsworth held the reins that controlled it. A man named Machold, Republican Speaker in the State Assembly and arch-opponent of Smith, was one of the prominent candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor. Almost at the last minute he withdrew. The Wadsworth machine, with neatly oiled precision, nominated the man whom Wadsworth had picked in advance. He was chosen on the first ballot without the slightest excitement. It was all cut and dried. Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, son of the late President...
...Hands off China" was the latest cry of the Moscow Bolsheviki. Damning the governments of the U. S., Britain, France, Italy and Japan as "bourgeois robbers" and referring to them as "arch-Hooligans," mass meetings, processions, demonstrations accused them of partitioning China among themselves. Effigies (of Charles E. Hughes and others) were carried in some of the parades and subsequently were "publicly burned...