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...castanets, he declares grandiloquently that only King Alphonso or Primo de Rivera may match rapiers with him. What could be more audacious than a novelist laying aside a vitriolic pen to challenge a crowned head of Europe? It is not likely that the pride of a Hapsburg-Bourbon will brook such an affront. Yet, even in this case, Ibanez has the long odds. He has looked over the King's record as a duelist and finds it poor. Besides, and the truth of this charge particularly infuriates the royalists, the King's manner of living in the last few years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLASCO QUIXOTE | 4/14/1925 | See Source »

...over his head, tossed his 217 pounds through the ropes. After 22 min. 49 sec. of wrestling, Zaikin refused to continue. Why? asked the referee. Zbyszko, Zaikin explained, had been secretly sticking his large forefinger into his, Zaikin's, ear-a method of attack which he could ill brook, since the ear had recently been operated on. The crowd, eager to believe itself cheated, booed. The referee gave the decision to Zbyszko...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wrestling | 3/2/1925 | See Source »

Captain F. B. Hayne '26 in an overtime period, after almost being floored by his opponent, received the referee's decision over Sesit of Columbia. Arida of Columbia and Milton Brook '25 had a close match in which each continually broke out of difficult holds before the Columbia man finally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COLUMBIA TEAM GRAPPLES WAY TO VICTORY OVER UNIVERSITY | 2/24/1925 | See Source »

...with another lady. Laca calls on the stepmother. He would marry the girl himself, he says, but damme, he cannot stomach the child. Whereupon the stepmother, on a black winter's night, drugs Jenufa, steals out hugger-mugger into the dark and drowns the bastard in an icy brook. On the day of the marriage feast, the ice thaws, peasants discover a disfigured bundle in the sedge. Step-mother is led off to jail, but iron bars make no cage for her. Her daughter is an Honest Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jenufa | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

Jenufa's stepmother, stealing hugger-mugger to the brook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Dec. 15, 1924 | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

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