Word: antagonistically
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...charged the champion Dempsey and knocked him down and over the ropes and out of the ring, and for a short time it looked as if the younger man had won the fight. But Dempsey, pausing for an instant only, rushed back into the ring, waded into his youthful antagonist and beat him to a standstill, a triumph of brain and courage over youth and ignorance...
...Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich . . . was . . . close to Roosevelt" (TlME, Feb. 15). As close as is a boxer taking a knock-out to his antagonist who gives...
...before the readers of the Saturday Evening Post in an article entitled "Bean Porridge Cold" which appears in the current issue. When we first learned of it, the thought came to us that we would be delighted to cross swords once more with so able and so courteous an antagonist. But after we read the article. We saw that the duel was off, for "The Old Dog" is now on our side...
...London report declared that one J. L. Baird, inventor, had perfected "Television," a device to enable a person talking over a telephone to see his antagonist. It may be so, but Thomas Edison's experiments in that direction were not successful...
When a reviewer has said this much it would appear that he has worked out the vein. Such a vein of superficial criticism cannot serve long as a paying proposition. This does not. Whenever an antagonist meets the Lampoon he must meet it on its own playing field and under its own rules...