Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such a plan would seriously interfere with the work of farmers, those employed in shops, at the desk and counter, meaning an economic waste and giving a wrong impression and alarming war-sick of other nations...
...acting, for Irene Rich, as a sophisticated screen queen, breaks down in her car among the hills, drops in on Charles Post (as Stephen Strange-way, hillman), lets herself in for his strong-man love. He does not recover until there has been displayed a good deal of vamping, counter-vamping, and ancient details of the Hollywood "sugar-papa" system. The scenario was lifted from the quivering pages of E. Phillips Oppenheim, but Charles Post's abdomen and eyebrows are as depressing as ever...
...During the month of June, 28,605 students were examined and 12,000 were expelled. Many students were arrested as counter-revolutionists' and deported to the very prisons which the nihilists want to wipe off the face of the earth...
...Heflin of Alabama shone, his elephantine frame resplendent in cream colored pongee. Ever and anon the great chider would burst forth in oratory, belaboring the Republicans ?regular and insurgent?making the galleries laugh. When a Republican rose in reply, and there seemed any possibility of a successful counter attack, Caraway of Arkansas interposed. He wandered from seat to seat, with his hands in his pockets, or walked like a monk in the monastery yard? head bowed, hands held before him? stopping only to drawl an apt, ironical remark. In the third row, beside the aisle, handling his books...
...Breslau another "Day" had been planned for May 18. A large military parade and an unveiling ceremony were to be the central figures. Republican War Veterans promised counter demonstrations; excitement was expected. The Prussian Government prohibited the meeting...