Word: archly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both functions at once was almost impossible, but Sir Henry Ponsonby made a career of tact. The Queen had a virulent hatred of what she termed the "communistic" fantasies of "desperate radicals"-by which she meant Home Rule for Ireland, Reform of the House of Lords and her Liberal arch-antagonist and recurrent Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. Gladstone was at once a passionate monarchist, reformer, and pillar of brazen endurance. Monarch and monarchist battled for 20 years. Much of the time the widowed Queen was unpopular with her subjects because she insisted on secluding herself in her country palaces...
...refused to have books written about his battles, was discredited. The incessant stream of Napoleonic propaganda that flowed in a torrent from the 19th into the 20th Century undermined Wellington's military reputation: "There is something disquieting," says Author Aldington, "about the almost fanatical boosting of the arch dictator throughout the period which was at least pretending to apply the principles of democracy...
basketball coach at Corning High School, Corning, Calif. When her football team trounced (14-0) Coming's arch rival, Orland, the latter's coach, Al Nichelini (a former St. Mary's All-America) . . . moaned "I'll never live it down that a woman beat me. The sooner the Army calls me, the better." . . . Pauline is a graduate of the University of California ('36), majoring in physical education, and no tomboy either...
There's nothing like a good war to bear out the fact that it is, after all, a small world. No less than four student officers in this activity, including your correspondent (Toots to you), are from South Bend, Ind. Three are Company D men, while the fourth, one Arch Graham, is a Baker...
...ARCH FARMER...