Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smack into collision with a lumbering scarlet omnibus. With one horse streaming blood, the coach careened wildly up Park Lane at a dead run. White-faced but resolute, Sir George Sidney Clive, D. S. 0. bounced about. There was a second collision near the corner by the Marble Arch with an evil-smelling sweeper's cart, wrenching a wheel off the coach. Shaken but uninjured the Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps descended from his rehearsal...
Stocky, barrel-chested. mop-haired Sculptor Barnard worked for 15 years on a project that has caused many of his esthetic friends to wince: a full-scale plaster model of an enormous War memorial arch which is yet to be translated into blue labradorite, embellished with a colored mosaic rainbow, rows of grave crosses in artificial perspective and an elaborate icing of gigantic white marble figures (TIME, Nov. 10, 1930; Nov. 27, 1933). Working like a beaver (his son estimates that he handles nearly 500 pounds of wet clay a day), he has been a recluse since the Armistice. Careful...
Jack Medica, of the University of Washington, one-half of the most famous arch-rivalry in the history of swimming, arrived in Cambridge yesterday and worked out in the Harvard Pool in preparation for the coming National Collegiate Swimming Championships, to be held here on Friday and Saturday...
...sniveling rascality of a 17th Century renegade. On Milton the poet he casts a keen professional eye, melting with reverence most often but sometimes, when he catches Milton sporting with a mediocre Muse, sparkling with contempt. To Milton the man he is bluffly antipathetic, regards him as the arch-heretic of an heretical age, a humorless megalomaniac...
...shrewd, genial, supersalesman is Archie Moulton Andrews, board chairman and largest stockholder of Hupp Motor Car Corp. In 1932 when this arch-promoter was backing the sale of securities in packages of one share each in 25 or 50 companies, he confidently expected his merchandise to become the "Ford of the American investment business." When he was pushing his Elektrolite cigaret lighter, he used to rub his hands over the 120,000,000 U. S. birthdays as prospective gift sales, crowing: "Give me 5% of them and I'll make $10,000,000." A sworn foe of Wall Street...