Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...municipal graft. Steffens's audience would read avidly to the last word, throw up its hands in horror at the wickedness of the Big City, make up its mind to eject these bad men from office and place good men in their places, and in short, wholly misinterpret the arch-muckraker's meaning...
Living proof of Senator Harrison's contention was soon furnished in Washington by the assembling of a cabal of cotton farmers' spokesmen represented, with Oklahoma's arch-inflationist Senator Thomas sitting coonily on the sidelines, by South Carolina's Senator Ellison D. Smith and Senator John H. ("Tallulah") Bankhead. More than 100 interested parties attended these caucuses, whose animated membership demanded two things...
Soon their pictures-religious, symbolic, realistically detailed-were the talk of London. Critics-in-the-street like Charles Dickens were indignantly disgusted, but Arch-Critic John Ruskin put his seal of approval on them, and the Pre-Raphaelites were made. From Oxford came Edward Coley Burne-Jones and William Morris to follow the new star. Morris was so enchanted with medievalism that he got an Oxford blacksmith to forge him a suit of armor. When he lowered the helmet's visor it stuck and he had to be extricated; but the coat of mail he wore the whole...
...highly dramatic ceremony, symbolizing the opening of the Grove each year, is known as the "Cremation of Care." It symbolizes the destruction of the arch-enemy "care," who has beset many men these days...
...climax next day in a grand burst of Latin emotion. First the airmen, in white uniforms and glittering gold braid, were driven to the Quirinal to be greeted by the King. Then began a march on foot down Rome's new Via Trionfale (laurel-carpeted) beneath the Arch of Constantine, unused for such purpose since the ancient Romans paraded through it on returning from the wars. Up Palatine Hill the parade trooped, into the ruins of the Stadium where Il Duce awaited them in the modest uniform of a militia corporal. General Balbo stepped forward, received from Il Duce...