Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Party by force of character and purpose. Bumbling old Stanley Baldwin, nominal Party Leader, has almost ceased to count. Since the Conservatives have an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons it is no secret that Scot MacDonald remains Prime Minister by Prime Mover Chamberlain's leave. An arch-deflationist and high-tariff man, the Chancellor of the Exchequer finds it convenient to get the Cabinet's work done beneath the camouflage of a "National Laborite" Prime Minister, popular, warmhearted, lovable. By the attitudes of Neville Chamberlain & friends, not by the speeches of Scot MacDonald, must Great Britain...
...great New York morning papers, Times and Herald Tribune, were meticulous in printing all the testimony, all the news-but no feature stories admiring the fighting spirit of Prosecutor Pecora. Edi- torially they were practically mute. The arch-Republican Herald Tribune spoke up once to the effect that the capital gains ? losses tax is a bad law. (No Manhattan paper made clear the point that the House of Morgan was opposed to that tax clause when it was written.) The Times printed a similar editorial and another entitled "Why It Hurts." Sorrowfully but reverently it found that the House...
...economic planning-just as Herbert Hoover did before the election. He believes in private property rights and due process of law no less firmly than does Chief Justice Hughes. For practical politicians like "Jim" Farley and "Joe" Robinson he has the greatest admiration. He has even expressed this arch-Hamiltonian view: "We would have better government if less people voted. There is no such thing as faith in numbers. The more numbers you have, the more foolish is the result." Friends know he is not being ironic when he says: "I am essentially a conservative fellow. I tilt...
...fancy dress; and to convince the mistress that her psychiatrist husband may not be taking his patients' fees under false pretences. As in many good comedies, it is the attenuated tragedy under the surface of Reunion in Vienna that makes its gayety so satisfying. Good shot: the arch duke departing from Frau Lucher's - patterned after Vienna's famed Hotel Sacher - to pursue his mistress to her husband's apartment, with arrogant instructions to the other guests to keep the party alive until he returns. Song of the Eagle (Paramount). If you care to pursue...
...Department of Labor) at a tea given by the Minister of the Dominican Republic. The Post's society editor is the most authoritative. She is blonde Evelyn Peyton Gordon, daughter of the judge who sent Oilman Harry Sinclair to jail. Her assistant is Sydney Sullivan, daughter of arch-Republican Writer Mark Sullivan. On lively Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson's Herald (Hearst-owned) is the highest-paid society editor in town, svelte Ruth Jones. By turning attention to the Capital's 'coon-hunting, cocktail-drinking younger set she has been helping get the Herald into Washington...