Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1931 no M. P. pledged to Prohibition has sat in Parliament. Last week Arch-Prohibitor Edwin Scrymgeour, who lost his seat in 1931, sat morosely in his Dundee home. Prohibition as a political cause was just about dead in the realm of His Majesty George V, a great whiskey connoisseur. With Bitter-Ender Scrymgeour absent in a huff, the British Prohibition Party had caucused in Dundee for the last time, dissolved...
...Mirror had suffered badly in local coverage. Everything was set for the Mirror's election at last week's meeting of City News until the World-Telegram delegate failed to appear. Lacking that affirmative vote, the "Noes" of the Associated Press and of the Mirror's arch-competitor Dally News were enough to keep the Mirror...
...Follies) modestly limits his appearance to a few skits. But his wife, little Ray Dooley, has all sorts of funny things to do. At one point she is hoisted to the top of a pyramid formed by half a dozen jibbering Arab tumblers. Teetering just under the proscenium arch, she is the picture of comic terror. Again, as an aged Merry Widow, she is tossed all over the stage by a full chorus, while irrepressible Bobby Clark (& McCullough) leads her through a bumbling waltz...
...Game of Names." The New York Post had only 60,000 circulation when David Stern bought it from Curtis-Martin year ago. The new owner tried to change the paper from a genteel, arch-Tory organ to a rowdy New Deal standardbearer. He succeeded mainly in making it a sensational hodgepodge. By fits & starts, the Post claimed to have 75,000 steady readers when it began its "Game of Names" contest last August...
Significant "agonies" from a single recent issue of London's arch-Tory Morning Post, favorite newsorgan of the King-Emperor...