Word: archly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Page One, the Providence Evening Bulletin last week ran a story with an arch note of warning. "A motorist from Cranston [R.I.]," said the story's lead, "sheepishly swears this story is true−but even if it isn't, a newspaper would have to be pretty selfish not to pass it along as he tells it." The story was that a motorist, who refused to identify himself, was driving along Connecticut's Merritt Parkway when his car stalled. He flagged a passing car, asked the woman driving it to give him a push. Since...
...caricature. James Hayter is a dear old tub as Pickwick; Nigel Patrick, as Jingle, makes a properly swagger cheapJack; and Comedienne Joyce Grenfell, as Mrs. Leo Hunter, the aristocratic wreck who holds the "literahry fawncy-dress breakfast," positively improves on the book by revealing when she smiles a dental arch of the sort that no doubt inspired the design of London Bridge...
...hustings, Nehru seemed far from the blinkers and the abstruse neutralism of New Delhi: he was the magnetic Panditji again, back among the people he had helped Gandhi lead to independence. He threw garlands, and jumped from his car to hug the children. He shinnied up a Welcome arch so that one excited crowd could see him. He leaped a wire barricade to rescue a child in danger of being trampled. He joshed Communists who had called him "potbellied." That, said Panditji., was "vulgar." His impact was such that the Communists soon called off their attacks for the duration...
After pointing this out, Hearst's Daily Mirror, the News's arch rival (whose circulation has slipped as much), needled the News some more, saying: "They also said they originate and others only imitate . . . Heck, we remember last summer when the Mirror started the great 'Lucky Buck' game that set the city and the nation on its ear . . . Weeks went by. Our friends ignored it. Then we heard [the News was] holding meetings . . . All those brains! All that money! What were they going to come up with? Then came B-day. Our friends brought forth something...
...faculty is now divided into the departments of Architecture, headed by Dean Sert, and City Planning and Architecture, headed by newly-appointed Roginald R. Isaacs, M. Arch, '39. Formerly, the latter department consisted of the two separate groups of City Planning and of Landscape Architecture. A third affiliated group, the Architectural Sciences department in the College, remains under the chairmanship of Norman T. Newton, associate professor of Landscape Architecture...