Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...temperature of the fire-pit was measured at 800° F. The soles of Kuda Bux's feet were examined and no sign of callous thickening which might afford protection was found. A surgeon stuck a piece of court plaster under the arch of the dusky performer's right foot. Kuda Bux faced his audience, said: "Anything can be done with faith...
While the press led by Mr. Roosevelt has recognized the assassination of Huey Long as un-American, few people have given thought to the equally un-American death of his assassin. Only the arch-Republican Herald-Tribune has protested the bullet-ridden body of Dr. Weiss...
Overshadowing every other event in the Far East this week was the abrupt appointment of Japan's arch-Fascist and patrioteer Yosuke Matsuoka as President of Japan's most potent engine of economic expansion into China, the South Manchuria Railway. This appointment ousted S. M. R.'s comparatively mild and cautious president, Count Hirotaro Hayashi, who balked schemes of Japanese jingoes to establish a Development Company for North China in which S. M. R. would hold a controlling interest. Such a company was to exploit North China, as the British East India Company exploited India a century...
Died. Mme Marthe Hanau, 49, French arch-swindler; of pneumonia following a suicide attempt (poison); in a Paris prison hospital after serving most of a three-year term for fraud. Through her newspaper, Gazette du Franc, she gave financial "tips" to small investors who lost more than $4,000,000 when her pyramid of holding companies collapsed in December 1928 in the greatest scandal France had known since...
...cornerstone of the New York State Theodore Roosevelt Memorial, voted by the State Legislature at a cost of $3,700,000. Connected with the main building of the American Museum of Natural History, this memorial is a vast hall which presents to the street a lordly Roman entrance arch...