Word: neutralize
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...fact which is harder to explain than the success of the play is that its patronage comes, it would appear, in a very considerable measure from the two races which are lampooned. To the neutral observer at the Castle Square Monday night it seemed that the assembly was divided into two cheering sections, each urging on its chosen cohorts in the battle of wits on the stage. The amazing feature was that everyone took the caricaturing of his own race as a great joke. Caricature is, by the way, the correct word, for only the Irish girl most charmingly played...
Other editors wrote a statement that everyone found acceptable. Partisans of either side were able to find in it a sneer at the other, while to neutral minds it seemed neither sneer nor lament, but a statement of fact: "The Americans have the money...
...entered the War "a well known Englishman happened to meet Page leaving his house. . . .'Thank God' the Englishman said, 'there is one hypocrite less in London today. 'What do you mean?' asked Page. _ 'I mean you. Pretending all this time that you were neutral: That isn't necessary any longer.' 'You are right!' the ambassador answered...
...Page was unsympathetic in enforcing U. S. rights as a neutral when Britain broke international law by going to extremes in her blockade of Germany. He fought with Lansing who tried to insist on American rights. He even gave Britain a hint to have a U. S. vessel seized by the French in order to ease up Anglo-American tension...
...Trial and appeal boards composed equally of teachers and education board members, plus a jointly elected neutral...