Word: archly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ARCH OF TRIUMPH-Erich Mono Remarque-Appleton-Cenfury...
Ahead, as far as the eye could see, the black pavement of Fifth Avenue lay smooth and empty between the towers of Manhattan. Millions of people, jammed along the sidewalks, stood waiting to welcome the 82nd Airborne Division. In 42 side streets below massive, grey Washington Arch, 13,000 soldiers waited...
...wore his usual white tie, looked more than ever like a peasant dressed in untidy Sunday clothes. But he was a peasant of genius. He took the measure of the High Court of Justice in Paris with a shrewd and baleful eye. As his treasonable acts were recited, the arch-collaborator of Vichyfrance calculatingly sized up the opposition: white-haired André Mornet, prosecutor of Mata Hari and Pétain; red-robed Judge Pierre Mongibeaux, who had sentenced the Marshal two months ago; the jury of resistance leaders and parliamentarians...
...esthetic followers of "art for art's sake," Henley's boisterous, often crude vitality seemed both stupid and frightening. Esthete Aubrey Beardsley was so terrified by his first glimpse of the "pirate" that he turned and ran for his life. Arch-esthete Oscar Wilde was made of sterner stuff. In a scathing review of Henley's hospital poems (whose occasional beauties, said Oscar, were "very refreshing [bits] of affectation in a volume where there is so much that is natural"), he opened a running fight with Henley that lasted nearly 20 years. The fight ended indecisively...
Samborski announced that the coaches for the teams are as follows: Bill Kelleher for Adams, Chief Specialist Paul Dunlap for Eliot, Arch Chesneau for Kirkland, Tom Murphy for Lowell, and Jack Norton for Winthrop...