Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Consequently when certain advertisers presume to ape, the effect is horrid. Horrid too is the arch way the same gentry bedeck their dry bosoms with TIME's own art-jewelry ("jam-packed," "fortnight ago," etc.) Ugh! It is really too too much. Readers are smitten with nausea, coma; worse, they develop sales-resistance...
...Democratic Governor since the Civil War, Louis J. Brann had not let Maine's electorate forget that in the past two years $108,000,000 of Federal money had been pumped into the State, which was five times the Government largess given Republican New Hampshire. The arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune editorialized: "Maine Votes For Santa Claus...
...Limousine. Welcome at this juncture was a diversion by Chinese Delegate Quo Tai-chi who wailed: "There is no doubt that continued military occupation [by Japan] of China's northeastern provinces constitutes the gravest existing danger of another war." After Mr. Quo had declared "Russia is the arch between Europe and Asia, hence China welcomes Russia to membership in the League," he received warm congratulations from the Great Powers and M. Barthou got back to the business of steering the Soviet Union...
Lady Jane (by H. M. Harwood; Arch Selwyn, Harold B. Franklin, Arthur Hopkins, producers). Playwright Harwood's stock-in-trade is his oblique and theatrical view of marital infidelity. In Lady Jane his premise seems to be that a woman may be unfaithful to her husband without any unhappiness or demoralization to the three people involved, provided one does not know about...
...religious editor must cut his thoughts to a consistent pattern. And of all denominations the one whose journalists are the most orthodox is the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Its magazines are: The Presbyterian (conservative weekly), The Presbyterian Ban ner (middle-of-the-road weekly), Christianity Today (arch-Fundamentalist monthly) and The Presbyterian Advance. The last, a journal founded 24 years ago, has, like many another church paper, accumulated a handsome deficit-$101,044. Last week it became known The Presbyterian Advance would cease publishing this month. Undeterred by the hazards of the field a Manhattan preacher...