Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Admiralty Arch and its iron gates (which prudent bobbies had locked) stood like Gibraltar while Admiral Nelson looked down from his Trafalgar Column and saw the line of bobbies hold. A second mob, however, had rushed down Whitehall, 5,000 strong, heading for No. 10 Downing St., the residence of Prime Minister MacDonald. This mob was briefly checked, until police reserves could rush up and beat it back, by a thin line of ornate, scarlet-coated heroes, the Royal Horse Guards?erroneously supposed by tourists to be good for nothing but the ceremony of "changing the guard...
Henry Hull is the same flawless actor he was in the stage version of "Grand Hotel." Every gesture is expressive, every look, significant. He is as much of a born actor, and arch rogue as John Barrymore. He carries off the part of the dilletante bachelor as well as Alfred Lunt were the uniform of the exiled Prince Rudolph Maximillian Von Hapsburg. But "Springtime for Henry" lacks the gay flavor and dramatic excitement that made "Reunion in Vienna" one of the most popular of the Guild offerings in the last two years...
...touring car and a four-piece band proceeded up & down the island making naive, earnest little speeches at village corners. Mrs. Whitney's hunter took a ribbon at the Piping Rock Horse Show. Republican Bacon's wife won two ribbons for table decorations at the Westbury Flower Show. The arch-Republican Herald Tribune reported the Whitney campaign on its society page. The Bacons gave a political tea party for 700 members of the Nassau County Federation of Republican Women. Last month at the home of the W. 0. N. P. R.'s vivacious Pauline Morton Sabin, no less a partisan...
...whisper while George V is saying his prayers, or while Stanley Baldwin is saying his, would be equally unthinkable. These three men?the vaguely born Prime Minister, the ermined & empurpled King-Emperor and the arch-bourgeois Leader of Britain's Conservative (majority) Party ?form today an impeccable Imperial Triumvirate. Last week they managed to wash their hands of a political crisis nasty enough to have wrecked almost any other government...
...found ripe carrion, a pile of 45 framed etchings at $2 each. They were rather smudgy plates by someone obviously impressed by William Blake, all on the same basic motif: nude man in supplication before a female angel. Each was signed "In Verehrung gewidmet"-dedicated in adoration-"Edwin Krenn, Arch. 1920." The vultures' eyes gleamed. Little Edwin Krenn, Swiss architect, Chicago real estate promoter, was the adoring friend of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick. The plates were etched in Zurich, seven years after he met his benefactor, and they had been sent over to the rummage shop with...