Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Next day, Senator James Byrnes of South Carolina hatched a handy little plan which even arch-isolationists were said to have approved and which the State Department immediately endorsed. "Within the next few days," said Senator Byrnes, the State Department would open negotiations for barter trade with Great Britain, Holland, and Belgium, swapping raw materials such as U. S. surplus cotton (TIME, April 10) to lay in "emergency stocks" of strategic materials (rubber, tin) in which those nations hold the world monopoly...
Wheaties' style of reporting ("Crack! A hot liner over second. Boy, Ducky-Wucky Medwick must have had a heaping dish of Wheaties this morning.") has become a running gag among baseball players, but it sells. The biggest (230 Ibs.) and the best Wheaties' announcer, 37-year-old Arch McDonald from Arkansas, adds a lingo of his own. A baseball buff from boyhood and a baseball announcer for the last eight seasons, Arch McDonald has the job of covering the home games of the World Champion Yankees and the Giants this season over WABC. He will collect a salary...
...bearlike, bluff, Arch McDonald attracted a huge following during four years as "Ambassador of Sports" at Washington's WJSV. Rabid fan John Nance Garner called him "the World's Greatest Baseball Announcer." Thousands cheered him when he once dared obscene and unidentified telephoners to meet him somewhere and fight like men.* When he broke his ankle last summer and broadcast from a hospital bed, small boys sneaked past guards, climbed through transoms, even hid in ambulances to visit Arch. Those who couldn't get in shouted questions at his window, and Arch shouted answers back...
...reason Arch McDonald is high favorite of the fans is that he avoids the hackneyed "hot-corner," "keystone-sack" school of baseball idiom. With Arch a pitcher is a pitcher, not a twirler; a catcher catches, he does not "do the receiving chore." The lingo he uses is his own or fresh from the dugout. Announcing a double play, for example, Arch is likely to report laconically: "two dead birds"; his fans know an easy fly as "a can of corn," an easy, high-hopping grounder as "Big Bill," a curve ball as "No. 2," and a slow ball...
French caricaturists like Debucourt and Vernet were more delicate if less vigorous draftsmen, though they early showed a fondness for scatological as well as lubricous humor. To such a gross commentary as Rowlandson's The Arch Duchess Marie Louise going to have her Nap (showing the future Empress of France in bed with Napoleon), Satirist Carle Vernet was able to reply with an incomparably more subtle study called Les Anglais a Paris, three figures of a girl, a fat boy, and a military popinjay which still contain nearly all the French have to say about the English character...