Word: archly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secessionists included three members of President Buchanan's Cabinet. One day around Christmas, the President was startled by a hubbub in the hall. He asked arch-Southerner Mrs. Roger Pryor (Reminiscences of War & Peace) "whether the house were on fire." She explained that "the shouts were those of rejoicing over a telegram announcing the secession of South Carolina." "That evening, Southern leaders, after celebrating in the parlor of Senator Jefferson Davis," went to call on Buchanan. Mrs. Davis rushed "impetuously ahead to share the good news with the President...
...often does a mass meeting attack a newspaper but last week such a mass meeting was held in Chicago. The enemy it rallied against was Chicago's dominant morning newspaper, the all-powerful Tribune and its autocratic, arch-isolationist publisher, Colonel Robert McCormick...
...That night they go dancing -in a booth in a phonograph record shop. But Janie cannot resist the bushy-haired mechanic's impregnably impertinent charm. He: "I think maybe I'm in love with you." She: "You are?" He: "I think so." A pause and an arch look from Janie: "Well, when'll you know?" They know immediately because each time they kiss they hear a bell peal...
...biggest Presbyterian church in the world (First Church, Seattle, 6,920 members) last week ended a 17-month battle over who should succeed the late, beloved, arch-Fundamentalist Dr. Mark A. Matthews (6 ft. 5 in. "Tall Cedar of the Sierras") as its pastor. Called by a vote of 349-to-83 (one-sixteenth of the congregation) was eloquent, diplomatic, athletic Dr. F. Paul McConkey of Detroit. During the 17-month squabble, the parish lost seven of its 26 branch churches, 1,100 members...
Through U.S. financial circles last week a rumor whispered that arch-conservative Montagu Norman was finally being eased out of the governorship of the Bank of England which he has held for 21 years. Reported reasons: 1) his close associations with England's appeasement group; 2) his unwillingness to subordinate finance-as-usual to war effort...