Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counterpart of Harley Street. Nearest approximations.are Boston's Back Bay district and Washington's I ("Eye") Street. A Harley Street physician or surgeon always comports himself decorously, properly, ofttimes pompously. He has medical learning plus a general culture. (Lord Dawson knows his literature, from which he often quotes. Matthew Arnold is his favorite poet.) Harley Street patients rarely change their doctors. The doctor is part of the family organization. Harley Street men wear a sort of professional uniform. The present costume (Lord Dawson maintains his meticulously) consists of morning clothes- black shoes and socks, grey spats, striped trousers...
...Henry Louis Mencken was speaking, nor Oswald Garrison Villard, but their local counterpart in San Francisco?Editor Edward Morphy of San Francisco's old conservative weekly Argonaut. Said he: "The Argonaut is opposed to blah and sobsister stuff. Blah seems to be the present standard of American newspapers." Also is the Argonaut opposed to Prohibition, reformers, the Klan, Radicals. It is for Capital Punishment; has small patience with labor unions; delights in baiting the bustle and flamboyance of Los Angeles...
First in history was last week's Pan-Pacific Congress of the Young Men's Buddhist Association at Honolulu. Y. M. B. A. first created some 30 years ago, is the counterpart of the Y. M. C. A.. Y. M. H. A. and Knights of Columbus. But far more serious than members of those associations are Young Buddhists in propagating their faith. At Honolulu they resolved to "interpret" Buddhism to Christian races, to prosecute Buddhist missionary work throughout the Occident...
...anyone who hasn't as yet seen the "Vagabond King", if is an excellent counterpart to "Lovin the Ladies." Operettas are usually improved by the addition of Dennis King and this technicolor talkie is no exception. At times he ejaculates too heartily, but all in all he does a good performance. The histrionic efforts, however, are drawn down completely by O. P. Heggie, playing the part of Louis XI. He plays the role with such restraint and control that the actor is entirely submerged in the personage depicted. Jeannette McDonald and the stage-sets lend sufficient background and color...
...California Athletes" and have become accustomed to limiting my expressions of disgust to sighs of pity. But it is asking too much to have me remain placid in the face of a statement that "Stanford so hopelessly outclasses Cornell that it is unfair to Stanford to be called a counterpart of that school," even under threat of apoplexy...