Word: archly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Censors, vigilance societies, and the whole tribe of guardians of the public mind, are well aware that print is their arch-enemy. Against the watchful custodians of the mails, social heresy or political immorality has little chance. The rostrum, too, is carefully safeguarded, as New York learned last year when it tried to hear such public speakers as Mrs. Sanger and Mr. Zero. But there is another ulcer at the heart of the body politic which was only recently discovered. That disease is Art: the diagnosticians are the American Legion and the American Defense Society...
...will be interesting to see how a twentieth century audience will take to the Miracles, as represented by the two presented tonight by the Dramatic Club in the Germanic Museum with a Cathedral arch and and later for a background and a "dim, religious light" supplied by electricity carefully concealed off-stage. The limited number who will be fortunate enough to see the "Lutterworh Christmas Play" and the "Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors" will find themselves as nearly in the atmosphere of the original miracles as it is possible for ingenuity and modern appliances to reproduce...
...present demand. England is tired watching the mark coast downhill; she wants to establish trade again with Germany under conditions more certain and less fluctuating and sporadic than they are now. Facing dangerous possibilities of the complete diplomatic face-about in Black Sea affairs,--Turkey's alliance with the arch enemy Russia,--England finds that her friendship with France needs a touch of cement to cover over the cracks left by Lloyd-George recent experiments in Asia Minor...
Both acts, in Greece and in Illinois, have been condemned--not because the one put six "heroes" to death or the other sets an "arch-traitor" free, but because they represent in themselves a perversion of justice. Perhaps the Greek execution is the lesser...
...pace, Coach William Haines' light eight took the lead for the first few hundred yards, and only surrendered it after the first quarter mile mark to Class A. This distance was soon made up and the 1925 oarsmen shot past their opponents near the Harvard Bridge, going under the arch nearly even with University...