Word: affrays
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...locate the main body of Admiral Leigh's command. In that he failed to do this in seven days, at which time Admiral Frank Herman Schofield. commander of the Fleet, called off hostilities, Admiral Willard "lost" the war game. But even after the tactical discussion of the affray aboard the Saratoga this week, when a report will be drafted for the Navy Department, no layman will ever know who won, who lost. The Navy prefers to consider that neither side loses or wins a maneuver, but that all hands gain experience...
...week, The Round-Up could at least be sure that it was the noisiest play on Broadway. Its cast includes seven broncos. A rescue party of U. S. soldiers finally join in a pitched gun-battle between poisonous redskins and a pair of frontiersmen. At the conclusion of this affray, one soldier may be seen waving a victorious U. S. flag over the smoke-swathed battleground from a papier mache rock. To the enduring credit of the cast and its producers, who intend to present a series of hardy old-time melodramas, The Round-Up is played with sincerity...
...Dark and Bloody Ground" State. Killers Griffin, Morgerson and Clouse surrendered to Sheriffs. Willie Johnson was at liberty pending investigation of the gunplay in which he figured. Since no patriotic Kentucky peace officer wants to nourish the State's oldtime reputation for feuds, only the Smith-Gambil affray was placed in that category. The State was at a loss, however, to explain the 23 killings which took place in the same two days. Others...
Three days after the 107th Street affray, an Italian gambler and his friend were shot down four blocks away. Children, playing in front of a public school, scattered to safety in time. Day after that, a police riot squad set out in automobiles, shot down four holdup...
...adversary's head with his keen blade. Only an up, down or sidewise slash, not a thrust with the point, is permitted. After eight slashes and parries, the seconds seize the sword arms, doctors examine the damage. Unless one contestant is unable to stand up, the affray continues until one faints from loss of blood or has suffered sufficient disfigurement to make the duel satisfactory...