Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sullivan, wife of the arch-Republican pundit-journalist, thanks for correctly identifying Edward of Wales' s good friend. Baltimore-born, Mrs. Simpson was named for her father, Wallis Warfield whose brother Solomon Davies was long president of Seaboard Air Line. Her mother, the late Alice Montague Warfield was famed for her beauty and charm. In 1916 Daughter Wallis married Lieut, (now Commander) E. Winfield Spencer Jr., U.S.N., divorced him nine years later. She went abroad with her mother, renewed friendship with Ernest A. Simpson, an Englishman who graduated from Harvard in 1919. They were married in 1926 in London...
...year in Washington, Emil Hurja and Theodore Huntley began to bet. Mr. Hurja, a prime political dopester in his own right, is Postmaster General Farley's second-in-command at Democratic National headquarters. "Ted" Huntley, a pompous little ex-Washington correspondent with an amazing bass voice, is the arch-Republican secretary of Pennsylvania's arch-Republican Senator David Aiken Reed...
...maids, 23 trunks, 50 pieces of hand luggage, a 12th Century Buddha and a $6,000-per-week contract. Awaiting her were a Sherry-Netherland penthouse, a show called Continental Varieties, a brand new night club on the 65th floor of the R. C. A. building, Rockefeller Center. Producers Arch Selwyn and Harold B. Franklin congratulated themselves when, a week before the Varieties opened, every $8.80 seat in the house had been sold. Rockefeller Center was proud of its Rainbow Room, with its high glass walls overlooking the city, its mirrored stage, its color organ which plays a design...
Hostess. There was nothing about the program, opened by the President's wife and closed by the President, to remind the audience of the Herald Tribune's arch-Republicanism. Gracious hostess of the Conference was Helen Rogers Reid, vice president of the Herald Tribune, who said to her guests: "We have chosen for the topic of this conference 'Changing Standards...
...real hero of the occasion is the huge stage of the huge Center Theater (3,700 seats) which has been a money-loser for a year as Rockefeller Center's second-string cinema theatre. Producer Max Gordon was obliged to build a new proscenium because the original arch would have dwarfed even his gigantic sets. In the finale, the orchestra pit rises majestically, slides back to join the other half of the orchestra onstage. and the united orchestra keeps on sliding back and back, leaving a huge ballroom with golden chandeliers and white and gold columns, ready...