Word: countering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mead ($2.50). Superlatives are dangerous. Yet it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, to arrange a more generally satisfying collection than the one which Editor O'Brien makes it his annual business to compile. Ernest Hemingway's famed The Killers, about two men who go into a lunch counter looking for a man they want to murder; Owen Wister's story about the card sharping son of a British lord; Joseph Hergesheimer's Triall by Armes, winding the suave coils of its prose around the mind of a millionaire's daughter who has married a multimillionaire...
...Crazy. Dorothy Mackaill frolics about in riding habits, in abbreviated dresses and behind a lunch counter. She shocks her grandmother, scares away bootleggers with a gun, and plays about with the cinematic ideal of a college boy, impersonated by Jack Mulhall...
...what he deems the "best theatrical performance of the month"--the month being November last, and the artist being the young gentleman from New Haven who entertained some fifty thousand people with his convivial antics. This feat avows the self-confessed humorist, was tremendous; and only the captious will counter with...
...with Feng in a joint attack on Peking. The onslaught was directed from the north, where Kalgan was captured by Feng's northern army, and from the south, where Yen's troops beseiged the city of Paotingfu. Predictions were that Peking was due for an early fall, but successful counter-attacks by Chang's army put the situation in doubt, although it was certain that Peking was threatened by the most powerful military alignment since the Chinese civil war broke out and that the troops in this alignment were closer to the Chinese capital than ever before...
Today marks the twelfth encounter of Harvard and Holy Cross teams on the gridiron. The chief question in the minds of football experts is this: Has Holy Cross established a counter tradition of victory, similar to that consistently upheld by Harvard teams a few years back, which it will take another long struggle to wear down, or are the Holy Cross successes of the past two years merely a temporary interruption in the succession of Harvard wins...