Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Excerpt from arch-Democratic Editor Daniels' paragraph...
...Democratic presidential nomination in 1856. He viewed his slavery debates with Lincoln in 1858 as a mere incident to winning re-election to the Senate. For Lincoln they were a major opportunity to attract public notice and favor. Contrasted with Lincoln, Douglas is commonly depicted as the arch fiend of slavery. As a matter of fact he was not. He tried to take a middle course on the issue, to weasel on it just as politicians today weasel on Prohibition. He favored settlement of the question in each new State by "popular sovereignty." His quarrel with Buchanan arose because...
Yesterday was a bad day for the Communists in Boston. Curiously enough, it was a bad day for their arch-enemy, Representative Fish. While the crusaders against capitalism denounced men, ways, and things American with their customary vigor, the appointed defender of American institutions, under the aegis of the V.F.W. Auxillary, gave a fine sales talk for the Federal Government...
...wrote it. Much of Stravinsky's Oedipus, despite its rigid pattern, is powerful dramatic music, worthy of translation. So, for Philadelphians, last week Stokowski proceeded to translate it, using modernistic idioms: The speaker (Negro Wayland Rudd; recalled the story in English through a loud speaker attached to the proscenium arch. On a platform above the singers, puppets 15 feet tall represented the Greek protagonists, themselves nothing but puppets manipulated by the gods...
...World was going traveling with a Morgan Partner and that when he got back he would write editorials for the New York Herald Tribune, the newspaperman's reply would have been "Oh, yeah? Now I'll tell one." But last week Editor Walter Lippmann of the late arch-Democratic, anti-Wall Street World sailed for the Near East with Mr. & Mrs. Thomas William Lament, and announced he would join the arch-Republican Herald Tribune in the autumn...