Word: counteractions
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...opinions on his family and mistresses, discussed England, the future of the U. S.. the characters of his subordinates, to his embittered aide. He expressed no grief for his lost armies, displayed a gruesome cheerfulness as he neared Paris and decided that the surprise of his return would counteract the shock of defeat. Of the 600,000 soldiers who marched into Russia, only 1,000 of the Old Guard returned to Paris in order...
...counteract the setback to air travel caused by the deaths of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, Arthur Brisbane hopped off from Newark on his first transcontinental flight. From Cleveland he wrote, ''The stewardess-hostess-trained nurse, who is here to take care of you, has perfect teeth, very fine yellow-grey eyes and a green dress." Said he upon landing at San Francisco, ''Flying is reading the country by the page while land travel is spelling out the letters...
German comedian. His enormous Gladstone collars generally have the patina of an ancient manuscript. He hates beds and regular meals, cooks what he wants when he is hungry and sleeps on the attic floor rolled up in a blanket. To counteract his habit of forgetting things his watch, his pocketbook, fountain pen, keys, etc. are attached to his clothes by an intricate system of safety pins and odd bits of string. He knows Goethe's Faust by heart, writes and speaks Latin fluently, discourses familiarly on the philosophy of Nietzsche, Spengler, hates beer...
...feared with President Conant in office. Thus the only danger left comes from the "professional" Harvard graduate who is so anxious for Harvard to win that he will personally finance athletes through college or insist on a Crisler or a Little to take his charges in hand. To counteract this, however, are the large number of graduates who are more anxious to see football played by undergraduates than mechanized for the audience. Therefore, Mr. Bingham's speech should give the student body, and more particularly the football squad, assurance that the new coach will have but one job, teaching them...
...oldtime German-American propagandist. Mr. Viereck ran a paper called The Fatherland during the War to counteract Allied- propaganda in the U. S. Of late he has been writing and speechmaking, "interpreting" the New Germany to his adopted land. When he heard his name mentioned at the committee hearing he loudly declared: "There is not the slightest touch of impropriety in the contract between Byoir & Associates and the German railroads nor in my connections with that distinguished firm. ... If it is right for the Russians to hire Mr. Ivy Lee, why is it wrong for the German railroads to employ...