Word: counterblasting
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This explosion was the counterblast to a series of remarks by diplomat Sir Malcolm Delevingne, the British representative. Sir Malcolm, to be sure, had charged -though in the most diplomatic way-that the Chinese government is corrupt, and asserted that the International Anti-Opium Association recently informed him of an instance in which 220 lb. of morphine* was allowed to enter China on permits signed by high Chinese officials...
Following Mr. La Follette's blast, Samuel Gompers expressed his disapproval of the St. Paul Convention. The Committee of 48, a Progressive organization, withdrew its support of the convention. William Z. Foster and C. E. Ruthenberg, leaders of the Workers' Party (Communist), issued a counterblast saying that Mr. La Follette was really opposed to the "formation of a class Farmer-Labor Party to fight the battles of farmers and workers." A number of organizers of the convention declared that Senator La Follette was in error about the Communists. But with Mr. La Follette and his followers deserting the St. Paul...
...unto you who are his grandson!" Then came the L's and with them "Ludy's" name. The Communists shouted so loud that they almost frightened themselves-a Herculean effort that made their former exertions appear entirely Lilliputian. Jealous Monarchists screamed "Ein, Zwei, Drei" and thundered a counterblast of shrill hisses. "Ludy," always a perfect gentleman, sat with his arms folded, looking the Communists squarely in the eyes and repeatedly bowing to them, although they were anything but complimentary. His supporters, however, stood by him, and yelled with one mighty voice: "Shame on you, you convicts!" Which...
...cult of young critics, these plays are running merrily on to a full year of performances. In spite of the efforts of The Dial and Vanity Fair aesthetes to " put over " T. S. Eliot as the greatest modern American poet, his vogue is vanishing amid an incessant attack and counterblast of the younger literati themselves. The authors of The Forty-Niners (recent dramatic fiasco) eat lunch four times a week with the young critics, but they did not save Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Marc Connolly, and Ring Lardner from a sound critical lashing. Heywood Broun's novel...
...clowning, now whimsical, but always looking on the bright side of morphia. It is, perhaps, the most interesting and innocuous, if the least harrowing of the dope plays, which will take some of the sting out of the current Hearst expose of the narcotic evil. A good antidote and counterblast for the meretricious pity and terror inspired by such dope plays as Morphia and Seventh Heaven...