Word: archly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, dour, diffident Publisher Robert Rutherford ("Bertie") McCormick and his arch -isolationist, Roosevelt-hating Chicago Tribune have been, in the year and a half the U.S. has been at war, active obstructionists. They have sniped and ranted ceaselessly at the President and every phase of the war effort, have publicly doubted the necessity of rationing, have insisted that the U.S. is giving up strawberry jam to assure jam for British breakfasts, that OPA is spying on merchants, that England wants empire-as-usual, that the European war is not our first concern...
Divorced. Arch Selwyn, 62, longtime Broadway producer (Private Lives, Wake Up & Dream, the first Chariot Revue); by Violet Brownie Selwyn, 51; after 34 years; in Los Angeles...
...throughout France last week. Saboteurs blew up a troop train near Dijon, killed 250. In Lyon a German detachment was ambushed and scattered with hand grenades. Bombs killed 23 Nazi officers at a Lille cafe. For the fifth time since 1941, an unsuccessful attempt was made to assassinate the arch-collaborationist Marcel...
Statesman at Play & Work. In a graphically described roadhouse ("Around a corner an arch of stout knotty pine opened into a big living room lit from skulls of longhorn cattle with electric bulbs in them set in a row round the varnished log walls"), Crawford is seen at play in blue-striped pajamas with a statuesque torch singer. In time he acquires a semi-Fascist radio station, is surrounded by more & more sinister henchmen. It becomes Tyler's business to take the rap for Crawford before a Federal grand jury and to be publicly repudiated by the demagogue...
...Britain Eden has run as first choice to succeed Winston Churchill as Prime Minister, challenged only during Sir Stafford Cripps's brief flurry last spring. He might or might not be only a stopgap Prime Minister. (He might, for example, be muscled out of the way by Arch-Tory Sir John Anderson.) But, Churchill having announced that he will retire as soon as war ends-when the U.S. wants to talk permanent postwar settlements-the best available Briton for the other end of the discussion is Mr. Eden...