Word: arno
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Machiavelli has become little more than an adjective signifying ruthless scheming duplicity. The present biography makes it quite clear that a man is behind the adjective, a true Florentine who slung mud and cobble stones in street-fights along the Arno, swapped bawdy yarns over a noggin of wine, curried favor with whatever political power there happened...
...Hall's single column sketches and headings are in the best New Yorker style, but the two best layouts in the issue are by Batchelder and Hichborn. Mr. Batchelder's Peter Arno picture (Arno wasn't so fancy in New Haven two or three years ago when his name was Curt Peters) is fully as good as that satirical fellow could do himself, and the halitosis ad is what is popularly known as lifelike. How many in the class can give this little girl an identifying hand...
...eyes bulge, great arms glide around his chest, like brewers' clamps over a beer keg. Just as the initiant feels like the inflated frog of Aesop's fairy tale, the great arms squeeze; the victim drops heavily, rendered unconscious by muscular anesthesia. This initiation "stunt," Professor Arno Benedict Luckhardt of the University of Chicago reminded the Academy, is dangerous to a person with a weak heart. The sudden compression of the chest when the lungs are fully inflated checks the flow of blood, produces a sudden fall in blood pressure, followed by a rapid reaction high above the normal...
...such people the exalted declaration at Stony Brook last week were confirmations of their hopes; the statement of Dr. Arno Clemens Gaebelein of Mt. Vernon, N. Y., editor since 1894 of Our Hope, a religious magazine, was a fact. Said he: "The second coming of Christ is near. Christ's return will be forecast by a figure sitting on a cloud with something similar to a sickle in his hand. The cloud will flush with a glorious light, then Christ is to come and all the holy angels will come with...
Married. Peter Arno, illustrator for the New Yorker, originator of the "Whoops Sisters,'' to Miss Lois Long ("Lipstick"), also of the New Yorker; near Stamford, Conn...