Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supposition that many people are becoming tired of extravagant language in politics." It ends: "Everybody knows that, if this country conserves its resources, it can produce enough to provide everybody with a decent standard of living. . . . Mr. Roosevelt has moved a little distance forward. . . ." First for the late arch-Democratic New York World, since then for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, Author Lindley covered Franklin Roosevelt for seven years, became one of the President's favorite White House correspondents. In Half Way With Roosevelt he presents a cool, critical but sympathetic history of the New Deal which...
Promptly the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune swung into action on the story, ordered its Washington Bureau to dig in the RA publicity files for confirmation. Next day the Herald Tribune frontpaged an article about three other Rothstein "drought pictures," in at least two of which the same steer's skull had apparently been used for dramatic effect. One print was labeled "Drought Victim," giving the distinct impression that the steer had just been laid low by the weather. Another was located in "the Bad Lands" which no farmer in his right mind would attempt to cultivate...
...speech in the East. While Nominee Landon was shaking hands with his relatives of all degrees and kissing his 83-year-old great-aunt so lustily that he knocked her hat off, the crowd was treated to another spectacle: Onetime Senator David Reed and onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, Republican arch-enemies in Pennsylvania, marched out on the speaker's platform, shook hands and were photographed together. Harvey Taylor, Pennsylvania's Republican Chairman, introduced the speaker as a man "sane, sound, sensible and sincere." Alf Landon stepped forward to explain his ideals to his home folks...
...story of pigs' pie was originally broadcast to various newspapers by the arch-Republican Boston Herald. The Boston Herald received it from Lawrence Thomas Smyth, of the Bangor, Me. Daily News, who got it from John McFaul, an oldtime News correspondent in Calais, Me., who got it from a "farmer over in Perry." Said Newshawk Smyth in Bangor...
...they passed the Wellington Arch, there was a flurry in the crowd behind Constable Dick's shoulder. Something shiny flashed through the air, landed under King Edward's charger. The horse took a few skittish steps, then straightened out. The King never flinched. Equerry Sir John dropped back. A shiny revolver lay on the pavement. Over the heads of an excited crowd appeared the rumpled features of George Andrew McMahon, being hustled away by four policemen towards a patrol van. Special Constable Dick had looked up just in time to see the revolver wavering in the herbalist...