Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because it has no plot--but it has as much plot as a revue and ten times the humor. Moreover, the imposing array of Wardles, Wellers, and Dickensonian whatnots, compensate for any lack of structure. "The Pickwick Papers" had no definite plot; to have invented one for its dramatic counterpart would have been to lose much of the spirit of the original...
...tried all the other forms of the drama even low comedy, the counterpart of modern musical comedy." Nor is Shakespeare in modern dress anything novel, for the playwrights of today in many cases merely change the lines of his works, and label them as new productions...
...English game differs from its American counterpart chiefly in the matter of scoring. A point is tallied only when the server wins the rally in England. Another minor difference lies in the English rule that being struck by the ball at any time constitutes loss of the point...
...rooms, sewing-rooms, lecture-rooms, schoolrooms, offices in the tower; stairs will go down to robing-rooms, Sunday school rooms, choir-rooms, locker-rooms, kitchens in the basement. There will be bolwing alleys and a basketball court - details which and do not reflect Dr. Fosdick, but are a counterpart to his prime interest in preaching. In the top of the tower, with four new bells, will be the carillon, gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., which last year disturbed the people of Park Avenue...
...highway police, who had kept an airplane with a gilded snout, a private yacht on Buckeye Lake, who had given parties modeled on those of the later Caesars, who had said-his thin voice rising to a shriek in a drunken and lascivious party-"I am the counterpart of Napoleon, the master mind of all the world. Drink her down." He was dealing with a man who had embodied in his person most of the political power of Indiana, and who was then serving a life sentence in Michigan City Prison for the rape and murder of a girl...