Word: antagonist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Above all, the government must avoid taking any positive action which would appear to align it on the side of either antagonist. Such legislation as the Association new proposes cannot fail to prejudice labor against the government. The Trade Disputes Bill, indeed, was characterized by the Laborites in England, as a deliberate attempt made by the capitalists to utilize the forces of a democratic government in the class war. And when either party looks on the national administration as blassed in favor of the other side, all hope of the efficacy of the government as an impartial mediator will...
...cast as hero. Professor Moley plays clown. General Hugh Johnson undertakes a comic Falstaffian role, "chief name caller" of the Administration, roaring about "tom-tom beaters," "witch dancers," "hobgoblin seers," "chiselers," "social Neanderthalers," threatening to "crack down" while NRA goes to pieces under him. Professor Tugwell is the chief antagonist, marshal of the forces seeking a socialistic state. He is a respected enemy until, during the farce of the Wirt investigation, he denies his "anti-American doctrines," makes himself a laughing stock. Above the tumult, in Olympian inscrutability, Franklin Delano Roosevelt strides two horses running in opposite directions while...
...labor-aiding Pennsylvania Security League. Even after University pressure reputedly made him give up that job he kept on loudly fighting the League's battles against sweatshops and exploitation of women & children, for old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, workmen's compensation. Nor is he the kind of antagonist who makes opponents love him in spite of honest differences. Chunky and spike-haired, he prides himself on speaking his mind anywhere about anything. When he gets on the subject of "invisible government" his thin, sarcastic voice grows shrill with rage. But he is a good teacher. Two years...
...District of Columbia Supreme Court but Mr. Jurney did not want to look for him there. The fact was that Mr. MacCracken's lawyer, smart, dapper Frank J. Hogan, whose defense of Albert Fall and Edward L. Doheny made him the Senate's No. 1 antagonist, was playing a game with the Senate. Mr. Hogan wanted Mr. Jurney to arrest his client in a court where a writ of habeas corpus could at once be obtained for Mr. MacCracken's release. Thus for two days the majesty of the Senate and the craft of Mr. Hogan were...
...fire. When this fails, he wrestles with him, whacks him across the nose with a poker. Rasputin writhes on the floor. Chegodieff then seizes an immense fire iron resembling a crowbar and mashes Rasputin as though he were a potato. He is just congratulating himself on having despatched his antagonist when Rasputin stands up. His face is an indescribable pulp, spattered with blood and sticky morsels which appear to be brains; nonetheless, he manages to give a Barrymore grunt. Chegodieff takes Rasputin out into the snow, pushes his gory head into a river...