Word: antagonist
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...council drafted formal charges. They were vague. Mr. Hopkins had once said that he was a Republican before a certain antagonist had left Hungary. This was called "unAmerican" of Mr. Hopkins. Also it was charged he had been at fault in graft that last year sent two councilmen to the penitentiary. Furthermore, he was dictatorial, unharmonious. Where the charges came from, councilmen said they did not know. A messenger had brought them from outside. Alert newsmen noted that the messenger was a Maschke minion, had left the Maschke office with a packet just before his arrival at City Hall...
Political caricaturists were quick to seize upon the rude rusticity of Lincoln features and figure.* During the Lincoln-Douglas debates every U. S. newspaper-reader came to recognize the beardless, bony railsplitter, shabbily clothed, big stick in hand, whacking at his rotund little antagonist. At this time the names "Honest Abe," "Old Abr'm" and "The Rail-Splitter" were popularly given Lincoln. These and others less affectionate stayed with him until his assassination...
Francisco Goitia lives as a recluse in the Indian village of Xochimilco on the edge of a floating garden. In his youth he went to Europe but returned like the others to build up a Mexican art tradition. During the Revolution he was staff-artist for General Angeles, antagonist of Villa. Like all Mexican artists he is concerned with suffering, has dedicated his art to the martyrdom of the Revolution. Like Michelangelo, Painter Goitia studied anatomy in dissecting rooms "to see about a flagellated back." Once he poured a pail of animal's blood over his model's back...
...daughter of a coal-miner, "a dad who never in all his life earned more than three pounds [$15] a week." As a graduate with highest honors from the University of Edinburgh, Jenny Lee, who is entitled to practice law but teaches school instead, proved a most formidable antagonist, took the seat from Lord Scone by nearly 7,000 majority. Connoisseurs observed that of the ten female M.P.'s the only one possessed of both youth and beauty is now the Right Honorable Jenny Lee. As a whole the results of last week's five by-elections were...
...policy is obvious. It robs the anti-Mellon group in the Senate of their most tangible excuse for attacks on Mr. Mellon, of which the real motives have been partisanship and personal bitterness. Michigan's Senator Couzens, a stout Republican, yet long Mr.Mellon's bitterest antagonist, admitted the order was "an advance" and twitted the Secretary on his changed position...