Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coming", shouted James Moses '40 and James L. McNamara '31, as they rushed to the rescue of 12-year-old Frank Barnoth whose skates got so far out of control Wednesday that he plunged into the Charles River in open water under the middle arch of the Lars Anderson Bridge...
...mother of the unhappy offspring, thereby covering the criminals, although she imagines that she is merely sheltering an indiscreet society girl (which is what the "mother" pretends to be) from exposure. By naming the minister as her co-sinner, Letty creates much crude hilarity, since the arch-crook is usually playing his part within a part, appearing to be a stern, puritanical partner...
...bombing pictures of Shanghai were extraordinary, as were the reels taken by Arthur Menken of the announced bombing of Nanking two months ago. Last week reckless Cameraman Menken stayed behind in Nanking to film the Japanese occupation. His films were seized and then returned by Japanese officers. A. T. ("Arch") Steele of the Chicago Daily News filed a story on the city's gory fall which was the best piece of reporting that noted correspondent has done in China...
...interplanetary visitors, recovers his youth, gets mixed up in an attempt to establish a fascist government in Great Britain-an odd, involved book, written in an exclamatory prose, that is a little like H. G. Wells's political-scientific satires, a little like James Branch Cabell's arch allegories...
...keep up the discipline until three females appear on the scene; the sister of the woman, now dead, whom he should have married, and that woman's three daughters, aged twenty, eighteen, and fourteen. Then the old sentimental story of ordered bachelorhood's being shot to pieces by arch femininity is once more retold, with delightful complications...