Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rose one James Clark, U. S. escort of the Englishwomen. "Monsieur," said he, "you have insulted two ladies." Legionnaire Arnaud challenged Clark to a duel with rapiers. Mr. Clark, demanding his right as the challenged party, stipulated fists. M. Arnaud replied that if Mr. Clark wished a vulgar brawl he would send his chauffeur to fight him. Mr. Clark hit M. Arnaud on the chin. Gendarmes separated the two. M. Poiret went home...
...worst brawl Prussia's rowdy legislature has ever seen, but violence did not stop with the Deputies. As soon as the story leaked out, Communists and Hitlerites began punching each others' noses all over Germany. In Hamburg a mob of Communists swept down the street shouting "Hunger, Hunger!" breaking into a delicatessen store. A volley of police bullets stopped them. In Berlin a group of Hitlerites were trapped by a surly crowd in a railway tunnel, had to be rescued by police. In Cologne and at Remscheid Communist crowds did not wait to be charged, attacked the police...
...Picket would be gored to death that they provided a coffin and burial squad. Entering the arena on a cayuse, Picket jumped on the back of the charging bull, sank his teeth in the bull's nose,, within seven minutes was sitting on its head. To avert a brawl between side-betting Mexican sports and Col. Miller's show hands, President Porfirio Diaz gave Picket a military escort, guaranteed the prize money...
Ratfutz-Soph-Frosh brawl. (Dartmouth...
...defendant in an interesting case in an East Boston court for assault and battery. The complainant who called herself "Minnie the Squaw", was playing whist with the defendant when she mentioned that the defendant's husband had "been hanging around her lately." The defendant denied this vigorously. A "brawl" ensued in which the furniture was damaged and glasses broken. The Bureau won the case for the defendant...