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Word: counterplan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1926-1926
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...while the passion of his daughter is to be a queen, preferably piratical, with the misbegotten brute who appeals to her inherited taste for coarse-grained erotics. When the hero, young Andrew Beard of New York, arrives on business for his rich father, he is snaffled between plan and counterplan of father and daughter, escaping not without scars on heart and body. In the distances are heard the splashing of tea-chests in Boston harbor, the rattle of musketry at Lexington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Living Dead Man | 3/8/1926 | See Source »

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