Word: archly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, when its author returned from vacation, he had a new contract with the Sun-Times at $22,500 a year, a 50% raise. That made Irv Kupcinet Chicago's second best-paid columnist, next to Chicago Tribune's Sport Editor Arch Ward ($50,000 a year). Kup is taking on other chores too; he has two radio jobs and was dickering last week for two more...
Writing had come hard to Ralph Waldo Emerson. "The sun has not yet illuminated the arch of heaven nor begun to display his brilliant beams," he wrote to an aunt in 1816, in a letter just found tucked away in the floor of an old Concord, Mass. house. "This I suppose is the time to feel inspired and this the time I shall improve to write to you." He finally had to wind it up, because "night with sable wings approaches and compels me to bid adieu." He was 13 at the time...
...week three magazines were scrimmaging in an all-American squabble. In splashy newspaper ad's, Collier's announced a streamlined T-formation system for picking its 1948 team-but made no mention of "Granny" Rice. Piqued because he had turned out a football dope story for its arch-rival Look, Collier's told him he could take all his business in that direction. Rice did. As a quick replacement, Collier's lined up six big-name coaches (at $500 per coach).* This "Supreme Court of Football," aided by ballots of ex-All-Americas and campus sport...
Readers blinked their eyes and looked again; there, in Lord Beaverbrook's arch-Tory London Evening Standard, in a column-long leader, was a eulogy of white-topped "Mr. A. J. Cummings . . . the distinguished columnist of the Liberal Party who writes in the News Chronicle. He is a warrior in defense of liberty, a crusader in the cause of justice, freedom and righteousness...
...weeks the Chief and the Arch-Vicar encourage the most indiscriminate promiscuity so that the state may gain manpower; afterwards, when the helots are put to work, all sexual contact is strictly forbidden. Poole is urged to join the California priesthood, which can be done by submitting to an operation that will forever remove potency. But in the meantime Poole has discovered a luscious vessel named Loola, who has taught him a few things. Preferring Loola to eunuch lordship, Poole escapes from Los Angeles towards a lonely northern outpost where, it is rumored, men are still...