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...mother of the unhappy offspring, thereby covering the criminals, although she imagines that she is merely sheltering an indiscreet society girl (which is what the "mother" pretends to be) from exposure. By naming the minister as her co-sinner, Letty creates much crude hilarity, since the arch-crook is usually playing his part within a part, appearing to be a stern, puritanical partner...
...bombing pictures of Shanghai were extraordinary, as were the reels taken by Arthur Menken of the announced bombing of Nanking two months ago. Last week reckless Cameraman Menken stayed behind in Nanking to film the Japanese occupation. His films were seized and then returned by Japanese officers. A. T. ("Arch") Steele of the Chicago Daily News filed a story on the city's gory fall which was the best piece of reporting that noted correspondent has done in China...
...interplanetary visitors, recovers his youth, gets mixed up in an attempt to establish a fascist government in Great Britain-an odd, involved book, written in an exclamatory prose, that is a little like H. G. Wells's political-scientific satires, a little like James Branch Cabell's arch allegories...
...keep up the discipline until three females appear on the scene; the sister of the woman, now dead, whom he should have married, and that woman's three daughters, aged twenty, eighteen, and fourteen. Then the old sentimental story of ordered bachelorhood's being shot to pieces by arch femininity is once more retold, with delightful complications...
...This answer includes the work of 21 authors: two novels (Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale, Anne Parrish's All Kneeling): short stories by Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Stephen Crane, Albert Halper; Max Beerbohm's famed Christmas Garland, Governor Wilbur Cross's 1936 Thanksgiving Proclamation, characteristic arch Woollcott comments...