Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hasty and inexact." That is what the potent, Wet, arch-Republican New York Herald-Tribune immediately said, among other disappointed things, of President Hoover's message to Congress. Many another influence close to the Administration was similarly chagrinned...
Satan's Last Stand. At this Satan is "greatly worried." Summoning an arch-devil, His Infernal Majesty commands , this fiend to fly to the Paris Peace Conference and enter the body of President Woodrow Wilson. Soon the President, possessed by the archdevil,** works out a satanic scheme, has the Roman Victory put in irons, transported to Jugoslavia and chained to the Croatian rocks...
...would seem that the pendulum has completed its arch and is on the back swing. The day is gone when a man's worth is judged by the amount of extracurricular work with which he has tampered. The proper ratio between these two elements of undergraduate life pertains solely to the individual, and in seeking it it would do no harm to bear in mind the remark of Woodrow Wilson to the effect that the side shows should not be allowed to overshadow the big tent...
...commotion in Washington. At the White House the "palace guards" (as the Hoover secretaries and advisers are called) vowed that it was Citizen Coolidge's opening bid for presidential consideration next year. Western agrarians openly mocked the attack on the Farm Board, called Mr. Coolidge "the farmers' arch-enemy." Meanwhile most Eastern editorial comment agreed with Critic Coolidge, inveighed all the louder against price stabilization as a crook-headed economic principle on which President Hoover, sooner or later, must do a politically painful about-face. Federal Farm Board Chairman Legge courteously replied...
...public at large. A new high is set in Princeton satire, however, with a song which demonstrates how to become a member of one of the better Princeton clubs, particularly how to greet classmates on the main campus thoroughfare, McCosh walk. "Doing the McCosh walk" advises young men to arch their backs, protrude their chests, ignore less fortunate friends while grinning servilely at prominent classmates. Incidentally, the tune is one of the liveliest in the show. Other appealing melodies: "Something in the Air" and "On a Sunday Evening" (recorded by Guy Lombardo's orchestra for Columbia...