Word: archly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critics wondered, for example, about Arch-Tory War Secretary Captain H. D. R. Margesson, who had once been Neville Chamberlain's Jim Farley. They wondered about Arch-Tory Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Halifax, who had publicly declared that the time was not ripe for Britain to invade Europe. They wondered about Arch-Tory Aircraft Production Minister Lieut. Colonel J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, who had been accused of expressing the wish that the Germans and Russians would exterminate each other...
...recently outlawed in New York. To get around the law, exhibitors, with $10,000 to $20,000 invested in each of their plume-tailed beauties, have procured affidavits from veterinarians certifying that the tail-setting operation (in which muscles are cut and the tail forced up into an unnatural arch) was performed for the health of the horse. For some reason, this makes it legal...
...Ginsburg, by Arch Oboler for his Everyman's Theater series over NBC. A "stream of consciousness" item, hokum no matter how you build it-and Master Oboler builds it like crazy...
...arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune editorialized: "OFF will coordinate the Office of Coordinator of Information (or OCI), report on the Office of Government Reports (the frequent reference to this as OGRE is just a typographical error), press-agent the innumerable Press Agents of the Individual Departments (often called the PAIDS) and will under no circumstances do anything whatever that anybody else is doing already. . . . When the Office of Utter Confusion and Hysteria (to be referred to as OUCH) has finally been created, then the capstone will have been set upon the pyramid and we can all die happy, strangled...
Next day almost all the Buenos Aires press was howling for Castillo's scalp, insisting that the Acting President was hellbent for dictatorship. Only two papers approved the firing: Razón, arch-conservative organ of Castillo's own party, and the Nazi-subsidized Pampero. Ramón Castillo sat tight. If he gets away with ousting the Council, he may decree that December's elections in Buenos Aires Province be held under provincial, instead of Federal, law, thereby insuring a fraudulent victory for his own Conservative Party...