Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune next day hastened to Mr. Lawrence's side with the cry: ''[Mr. Roosevelt] is showing again the Roosevelt who can't 'take it' - the man who when he meets with criticism is moved by the desire to crush his critics by means foul or fair." To this the loudly pro-Roosevelt New York Post responded : "No President in American history has 'taken' more and taken it with better grace than Franklin D. Roosevelt. . . . But let one breath of criticism be directed at these three pompous commentators...
...administration; 2) disapproval of Chicago's Mayor Edward Joseph Kelly and his ruthless Cook County political machine. A vote for Candidate Herman Niels Bundesen might mean: 1) approval of Mayor Kelly and party patronage; 2) attachment to Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick's Chicago Tribune, which threw its arch-Republican influence behind Boss Kelly's candidate...
Month ago the Virginia General Assembly passed this law. The South Carolina Legislature has it under consideration. North Carolina may possibly have a special session to act on it. Arch-enemy of the Roosevelt Administration that he is, Governor Talmadge of Georgia, the fourth state which produces flue-cured tobacco (used in cigarets), will call no special session of his legislature to pass a New Deal law. Therefore the Federal legislation provides that for 1936 the compact should go into effect if the growers of Georgia form an association to carry out a similar voluntary program and the other...
When the towering Scot, followed by his 6-ft. lady, stepped off the gangplank of the Strathmore, the white warships of the Royal Indian Navy in Bombay harbor crashed out a 31-gun salute.* Shore batteries replied with 31 more reports. Under the dockside Arch of Bombay, called the "Gateway of India," waited British bigwigs and a selection of resplendent Indian princes. For hours Lord Linlithgow, though not yet officially Viceroy, shook hands with various delegations. Finally, with his lady and his daughters Anne, 22, Joan, 20, and Doreen, 16, he rode between lines of the viceregal scarlet-coated bodyguard...
...hero (William Powell) as a barker at the Chicago World's Fair. He makes a fortune out of Sandow, the strong man, loses it at Monte Carlo, recoups in London by a contract with Anna Held (Luise Rainer) whom he steals from under the nose of his arch rival (Frank Morgan). He gives her a dozen orchids every day, makes her famed for her milk baths, eventually marries her. At this point, The Great Ziegfeld soars from the prose of fictionized biography into the poetry of revue. For 20 minutes, a huge revolving staircase exhibits showgirls, dancers and tableaux...