Word: confounder
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...shoot down the enemy. Not for nothing was his great ancestor, the First Earl of Salisbury (circa 1565-1612), the strongest and wisest counselor of Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. Last week with every blue drop of his Cecil blood a-boiling, Lord Hugh rose to confront and confound Winston Churchill...
Although as announced beforehand the Vagabond himself kept strict hibernation throughout the reading period and the ensuing examinations, a disciple has arisen to confound the teacher. Not content with a mere passive exposure to lectures, this King of Vagabonds took the examination given in a course allied to his field though he was neither known to the instructor nor enrolled with the absentee members attending at the meetings of the course immediately before and after holidays last fall...
...Behind Candidate Walsh is William Gibbs McAdoo. Behind Candidate Reed is William Randolph Hearst. Behind Candidate Smith is onetime (1915-21) Senator James Duval Phelan, locally no less potent than McAdoo or Hearst but not clearly the Democratic strong-man of California able to combat the other two and confound them by division. The California primary, set for May Day, loomed large and inscrutable...
...first place the Class of 1931 is a new class: new things are different and therefore by perfect syllogistic deduction the Class of 1931 is different. There is a second opportunity to confound the blase by pointing out the fact that hope springs eternal in the human breast. Together these principles should satisfactorily establish the unique splendor of the incoming Freshman group in Harvard College. This once assumed and secure in its own virginity the Class may safely prepare to ascend the heighths. The trail is not too rocky, its slopes not too steep but what it is surmountable...
...news that an American senator has been refused permission to enter a foreign country because of his subversive politics, on the grounds that he would create a general feeling of unrest and insecurity, is enough in itself to confound the Boston Evening Transcript. It is warrant for a new crusade against the Bolshevist vipers in this country, who have now invaded the sanctity of the Senate itself. It is almost as if George Rex were accused of waving a red flag. Viewed alone, the news is endowed with a truly awful significance. If the American senate is harboring political heresy...