Word: offsets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...spite of his soothing message, the President seems a bit perturbed over the turn events have taken in the past few months. He fears that blunt Democratic remarks concerning the aluminum trust, the tariff commission, and the Mitchell furbelow may operate against a Republican victory. To offset the pernicious effect of these unpleasant criticisms, the president makes a political parade of virtue. And the fanfare on either side is the result of a seasonal activity which breaks out in years of Congressional elections. Were it not for the autumnal threat, President Coolidge might have continued his policy of silent disregard...
...counteract this insidious propaganda that this patriotic journal would take these young men west and exhibit them as an offset to the cheap jeers and unintelligent opposition' which characterize pacifist procedure." Thus it is evident that at least two prominent American journals see in a "boast of heraldry" and its accompanying "pomp of power" the renascence of middle western morale. Yet does not this savor a bit of "unintelligent opposition" to the active desire of the people of the western world that there exist a real appreciation of the vitality of peace...
...manufacturing line will no doubt prove a drawing card for men in the University who plan to go into exports, especially members of the Business School. They are invited to attend the meeting. A charge of 25 cents will be levied on all those attending the meeting to offset the expense of cigars...
...Dunn, while George Riddell in the role of the rich grasping merchant of Falling Waters, too phlegmatic in the first act, rises to the mood of his later lines. There is an excellent bit of juvenile acting by Dora Cramer as Meenie, Rip Van Winkle's little daughter, completely offset by Olive Tell who takes the part of Meenie many years later. Miss Tell flutters and ravishes those beyond the footlights utterly unconscious that she is meant to be portraying an emotional crisis on stage. The rest of the cast have their mind on their art and well support...
...delivered himself warmly as follows: "Mv speech was made at a private dinner at which the toastmaster began his remarks with the statement that no reporters were present. ... It was not necessary for us to spread false propaganda, as sufficient false propaganda was being spread from other sources to offset any which was spread for a good purpose . . . My whole idea in speaking was to show that propaganda not based on truth is futile...