Word: archness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem often pondered by U. S. architects is that of making Manhattan's Battery Park truly "The Gateway to the Nation." Foremost designers and designs in the past: 1) Arthur Ware-A triumphal arch, axised on Broadway with an esplanade enclosed by a peristyle, flanked by two buildings, one dedicated to the Army, one to the Navy. 2) Christopher Grant La Farge-An ornamental arrangement of pylons and railings framing a reception plaza, a fountain playing in a great reflecting pool, the whole scaled low, designed simply, keeping the Broadway vista open. 3) Eric Gugler-A granite shaft...
...Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Company under a Crown charter John Winthrop, arch-Puritan, sailed from Eng land in March 1630, aboard the tiny Arbella. On June 12 he landed at Salem. With him were 900 settlers in eleven ships. They moved to the mouth of the Charles River where they built a village and called it Boston...
...King and his henchmen (who favor "preferential tariffs" on Empire goods) have been able to impute to Mr. Bennett a sort of spacious treachery to the Empire as a whole, a niggardly and local view. This is the more grotesque because the Conservative Party is traditionally the arch-Imperial party of Canada. But in this election Mr. Bennett has wobbled too. Of course neither of Canada's suave and astute bachelors has actually called the other "traitor," any more than Messrs. Hoover and Smith called each other names, but the animus, the insinuation has been there...
...public office, Citizen Calvin Coolidge last week began to compose for his fellow citizens a daily message on subjects of current public interest. For this the McClure newspaper syndicate contracted to pay him $200,000. For the privilege of printing "CALVIN COOLIDGE SAYS:" without the syndicate credit line, the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune was willing to pay McClure $150 per day. No ex-President had ever before afforded such a front-page feature...
...speech, has the voice of Missouri's white-headed, red-faced, raven-throated James A. Reed been heard in the land. But last week, on the eve of sailing for a European holiday, he emitted one of the jibes for which he was long famed as Senator and arch-Democrat. Said...