Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advent of England's present Labor cabinet, Lord Birkenhead resigned his government portfolio, looked over the many offers from corporations seeking his ability and his reputation, chose finally the chairmanship of Greater London & Counties Trust, Ltd. He became also a director of Imperial Chemicals, Ltd., Lord Melchett's British counterpart of I. G. Farbenindustrie...
Neither Trainer nor Ticknor is a physical giant; they both weigh around 190 and stand approximately six feet tall, but what they lack in bulk they amply make up for in strength and stamina. In all these qualities the one is very nearly the exact counterpart of the other, a fact which makes their play very similar and renders it impossible to rate one above the other on merit...
Famed is Chapel street, shopping, strolling, class-going thoroughfare of Yale undergraduates, counterpart of Princeton's Nassau Street, Harvard's Massachusetts Ave., Smith's Elm Street, Wellesley's Washington Street, Cornell's Central...
...Lord Mayor of London is almost invariably a different sort of man from his counterpart in a great U. S. city such as Chicago or New York. Political pull cannot elevate an Englishman to the post whose incumbent has authority to grant (and hence to refuse) permission to the King-Emperor to pass Temple Bar, traditional gateway to the City of London. Great wealth and an established, honorable position in the business community are the well-nigh indispensable qualifications of any Londoner who would become "My Lord Mayor." The office is really honorary, the incumbency only one year. Anyone...
...play itself would cause no exultation. But Ethel Barrymore acts the part of the jaded lovelady of Budapest who meets a sleek male counterpart. Ensues a mutual struggle against sentiment. Even in Budapest it is difficult not to care for the person with whom one has an affair, so after the child is born, a tremulous surrender to the exigencies and joys of affection occurs high in a Swiss chalet. This cycle of repression and catharsis is endowed with the mysteries of personality and feeling by Actress Barrymore, statuesquely assisted by Louis Calhern...