Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late great Joseph ("Old Joe") Chamberlain, though he was never Prime Minister of England, dominated the policy of the British Empire from 1895 until his paralytic stroke in 1906. Dying in July, 1914. he bequeathed to British politics two arch-conservative sons. Old Joe, scion of masters of the Cordwainers' Company,* maltsters, brewers, cheesemongers and ironmongers, was the first middle-class Englishman to move with arrogant authority among Victorian England's ruling class. Symbols of his good opinion of himself were the monocle in his cold, irritable eye, the invariable orchid in his buttonhole. He wrecked two parties...
Jumping into their cars, myriads of Dionne fans streaked for Callander, Ontario, last week, entered it beneath a triumphal arch, read strange signs, nosed around in vain for a peek at Joseph Robert Telesphore Dionne...
...gram, on which a $1,350,000 exploitation fund was lavished in its first eight months, has yet had any profits to share with the Brothers Pulitzer, the news has not been made public. Its circulation, never far over 400,000, has lately remained about 100,000 above the arch-conservative Sun, about 200,000 below the rowdy Journal. Publisher Howard prefers to measure the World-Telegram's progress in the past five years in terms of public service rather than circulation or profit, points out that the paper has made a place for itself in the nation...
Grand old man of U. S. sculpture, 73-year-old George Grey Barnard, was courageously carrying on with the great Rainbow Arch of Peace which he hopes some day to give the U. S. public. Last month vandals broke into the abandoned trolley powerhouse in upper Manhattan which is Sculptor Barnard's studio, wantonly destroyed $17,000 worth of finished figures, left unharmed the full-scale plaster model of the Arch. Said Sculptor Barnard: "I must smile and learn to do better...
...Pittsburgh's eccentric Mayor William Nissley McNair promptly walked out of the trustees' meeting, snorted: "This fellow's a Communist. He's been associated with Steinmetz- and they're all Communists." The Mayor's characterization needed no further refutation last week when arch-Conservative" University of Pittsburgh invited President elect Doherty to its Commencement exercises, made him an honorary LL.D. Also honored by Pitt, with an L.H.D., was Editor Douglas Southall Freeman of the Richmond, Va. News Leader, author of last year's Pulitzer Prizewinning biography Robert...