Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...view, all grouped under the generic title of "Feminanities." Typical was one called Hope Springs Eternal. In a department-store basement a group of bedraggled female shoppers, including a spectacled schoolteacher, a colored wench and a draggled woman in a raincoat and hangdog stockings, are standing around a counter at which a pert blonde shopgirl is demonstrating some kind of face cream...
German attempts at counter-propaganda mostly misfired. Most spectacular were the visits of the Dentschland, commercial submarine, to Baltimore, and the U-53 (which sank nine merchantmen off Nantucket) to Newport. As sporting events, both these voyages appealed to the U. S. imagination, but in retrospect they soon seemed a threat...
After killing 7,000 Communists in his recent drive, Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek bore the brunt of Chinese Soviet counter-attacks last week, operating from his field stronghold at Kweiyang. In press handouts the Generalissimo reported that Comrade Mao Tse-tung ("Chinese Lenin") now has no fixed headquarters or abode but moves with his Chinese Soviet Government in nomadic fashion from province to province. Moreover the Chinese Lenin was said to be so ill that he has to be carried on a stretcher...
...counter with this adage...
...Times and Herald Tribune viewed it with open alarm. To circumvent the court order, non-professional friends of the strikers proceeded to picket the stores with carefully inoffensive signs simply stating that the strikers had been enjoined and that the stores advertised in the Ledger. Publisher Russell sent out counter-pickets with signs explaining that the stores advertised in the Ledger because the Ledger employed only "union labor" (i. e., the printers' unions...