Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Swedish Academy of Sciences gave a good imitation of an arch housewife who, having made her family believe they would get nothing but pork & beans for supper, bounces beaming out of the kitchen with a big, beautiful platter of cookies. Three weeks ago the Academy, which awards Nobel Prizes in science, bestowed the 1938 and 1939 prizes in Physiology & Medicine on Corneille Heymans of Belgium and Gerhard Domagk of Germany, gave newshawks to believe that no more awards would be forthcoming this year. Apparently the Academy changed its mind. For last week it announced four more prizewinners...
...Declined to wrap Franklin Roosevelt and his whole New Deal in a blanket endorsement, elected the Carpenters' arch-Republican William Hutcheson first vice president...
...host to several score undergraduates at a series of "Afternoons for Tannin Tipplers." Chief feature of the teas was a tirade against J. P. Marquand '14, who, as author of the best-selling novel, "Wickford Point," which intimately sketched "The Brills," a decadent New England family, was the arch-enemy of the Sophomore's parents and grand-parents...
...picture's best gag is wordless. MacMurray has been Bali-hooeying Madeleine Carroll about his home life with five native maidens. One of them, he brags, sweeps for him, one sews, one cooks, one dances. . . . Carroll: "But that's only four!" MacMurray: arch silence, a coy smile...
Since March, Arch Oboler has been writing, casting, directing, dabbling with radio tricks and sound effects, in a Saturday night play series specializing in "emotional conflict." To last Saturday's, NBC paid special attention, giving a full hour for the first time, and using the NBC symphony orchestra for the first time in a dramatic show. Reason: sixtyish Alia Nazimova, Stanislavsky-trained, Ibsenite and cinema siren, had been won to radio...