Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason why the cartoon did not get its author and publishers arrested for treason was that it had been drawn by patriotic Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, appeared in the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune and its syndicate customers. Another reason was that, at the time, any hope of united action by U. S. conservationists seemed pure fantasy. For years the people who want to look at animals and the people who want to shoot them have fought each other far more vigorously than they have fought for the preservation and replenishment of the nation's wild life resources...
That was too much even for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune, which lashed out: "To snap an informal photograph of the President at the moment that he happens to be rubbing his nose and then to publish it over captions implying that the attitude reveals weariness of spirit, despair or silence under attack is as flagrant a piece of misreporting as it would be to distort the clear meaning of his reply to a press-conference question...
...casts, some of which are over 50 feet high, include a model of the portal of the Temple of the Vesta at Tivoli built in 72 B.C., and the columns of the arch of Constantine, installed when Robinson was built...
Although the Supreme Court did not give out its awaited decision on the T. V. A. Monday, it is reported from reliable sources that the opinion is being written either by Justice Sutherland, arch-conservative member of the court, or by Justice Brandeis, the noted liberal....NEWS ITEM...
Always Torvald Hoyer was the Understander.* At the cry of ''Hep!" he would arch his chest, flex his muscles and allow the rest of the Montrose Six to swarm all over him, stand on his head, festoon themselves from his arms. This went on for years. Playing Switzerland one year, he met and married a Danish toe dancer...