Word: challengee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Perhaps the Greeks, notoriously fickle, want a King, instead of the President (Alexander Zaimis) their Parliament has just" elected (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week obstreperous old Prime Minister Eleutherios Venizelos, 100% democrat and "Father of the Greek Republic," flung a bold challenge to Royalist Leader Panagiotis Tsaldaris.
Some of the Times's friends realized with sympathy that its queer deer story was only a shade more embarrassing than a story which the Times printed in September. Receiving a flash from Buenos Aires that the bovine championship of the Argentine had been, won by an animal named...
Argentinians were convulsed. Buenos Aires humorists chortled. To their beef-wise minds, nothing could have been more comical than making a cow out of potent Esther Bletchley Challenge, national champion bull for which Bovril Co. paid 30,000 pesos to publicize its beef extract.
"The Student and the Social Challenge" is the subject of an address to be given under the auspices of the Harvard Socialist Club by Dr. H. W. Laidler in the Shepard room of Phillips Brooks House this evening at 8 o'clock.
(3 of 4) to duel, swords or pistols as they pleased. In declining such a challenge M. de Casagnac, himself no mean swordsman, said: "M. Clemenceau is probably the greatest swordsman in the world. He is also lefthanded, which gives him a tremendous advantage. Then, too, he is a skilled...