Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slap faces to Right and Left. On the Right those eminent attorneys who once were sure the National Labor Relations Act was unconstitutional, were slapped again by a series of decisions upholding the law. On the Left those liberals who have long maintained that the Court was an arch enemy of Labor were rebuked with decisions favorable to Labor...
Passing under a triumphal arch of bamboo resembling Noah's Ark, he entered a bamboo palisade. There he spent the day squatting upon matting with acres of other squatting Congressmen. Most of the speakers could not be heard by more than a fraction of the listeners, but whenever the Congress has met this has always been true and Indians do not mind. To them a palaver of this kind is a great emotional experience and they pay little heed to the shrill, monotonous speeches. Then every nightfall President Bose climbed back into his chariot and was drawn home...
...That arch-Republican Statesman-Educator, President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University, signalized the occasion by announcing to the U. S.: "Step by step, during this 20-year period, Estonia has moved forward toward stronger and more clearly defined democratic institutions. [Estonians are] building their nation upon principles which the people of the United States so fully understand and heartily applaud...
...from under it. Ice, blown by gales out of Lake Erie and over the falls, piled up 90 ft. high in the river, ground into the bridge's unprotected piers set near water level. After 30 hours it simply pushed the base of the big 840-ft. arch at the U. S. end from its pier and the bridge fell. Useful chiefly for sightseeing, the collapse caused only a minor traffic problem between Niagara Falls, N. Y. and Niagara Falls, Ont. Three separate plans for new bridges were under way within a few hours of the crash...
Many were the Leviathans final indignities. The two masts that once reached for the sky were bobbed 78 ft. to fit them under the Firth of Forth Bridge's 150-ft. arch. Ten feet were lopped off each of her three funnels-the debris, good scrap, lashed to the deck for the voyage. While reporters tramped through three years of dust on a last inspection trip, careless blacksmiths started a small fire. Someone had recently stolen two big paintings. Then her imported seamen began negotiating for the same wage as the U. S. crew, delayed her last departure from...