Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once a year at Williamsburg. After the ceremonies, the party inspected the H-shaped Capitol building, whose handmade bricks had been specially fashioned in a nearby brickyard, admired the reproduction of the chair in which the Crown Governor once sat, smiled at an inscription above an arch in the south wall of the piazza: "Her Majesty Queen Anne Her Royall Capitol." A reception and luncheon given by Mr. Rockefeller and a Legislative tour of restored private homes and public buildings concluded Williamsburg's biggest day since 1779, when the capital moved to Richmond...
Cannonade. That last rebuke set off a cannonade of editorial rage. Angriest was Publisher Ogden Reid's arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune: "Here is . . . the first time that the President has publicly given support to the 'Smear America' campaign in which so many of his aides have participated. America has been made familiar with government by edict. Is it now to be subjected to 'government by insult?' The episode is of importance in relation to the constantly growing tendencies of the Roosevelt Administration to resent criticism, however fair, and to slander all who dare...
...taken seriously." El Chipete, Nicaraguan slang for "tough guy", was the name of a mountain stronghold and the description of its dauntless commander, General Cesar Augusto Sandino. Bearing the names of emperors of old, and living in the region of the Mayan empire of fabulous wealth, he became the arch-enemy of modern imperialism...
...operating slowly, on thousands of "mysterious cylinders, maps of prevailing winds, nose-blankets of cottonwool," showing how completely by surprise the first gas attack took the Allied military and intelligence forces in 1915. As to acting, the show is put over, as so many European ones are, by that arch-villain, Conrad Veidt. When America has brought that competent film star of Hollywood its movie personnel will be complete...
...last week Doom came to life. In Doom's Pabst Hotel doors slammed early in the morning in the famed "corridor of princes." Down the street marched a score of young men and old, onetime kings and princes of Imperial German states. Under the gate arch hung with a pennoned canopy, through the palace entrance marked with the letter "W" in electric light bulbs, they trooped to salute their onetime King-Emperor. Then the black-suited company of men, led by Wilhelm, gave praise to the God of the Hohenzollerns. It was Wilhelm's 75th birthday...