Word: duel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the other articles and reviews which are expected for this special number of the Bookshelf is a review of "My Duel with the Vatican" by Alfred Loisy, which will be written by Professor R. B. Perry '99, Professor of Philosophy. Francis E. Bowman '24, Assistant in English, will review "Straws", by James Branch Cabell...
Influenza and other ills were in the chilly breath of a pestilential slush-storm on Franklin Field, Philadelphia. Yet 54,000 hardy perennials sat by to watch Penn and Penn State struggle through a punting duel in the mud. Back and forth sailed the slimy ball, each team trying a field goal now and then. The mud won. Score: Penn 0, Penn State...
...misunderstanding of the way "these foreigners" look at things. Certainly the members of the American Team knew little enough about dissensions and unpleasantness-until they got home and read about themselves in the paper, or had their friends ask them "Did you have a fight? Get challenged to a duel?" Then, and then only, did they realize that the Olympic Games had been a cross between a New York subway rush and an Elizabethan tragedy of blood...
There was the famous case, of course, of the Italian-Hungarian duel-and of the Frenchiboxer who bit the ear of his English opponent. But what can you expect, in all common-sense? It is not so very long ago that individual members of rival football team, both Americans, and both supposedly united by the bond of a higher education, would "fight it out" by themselves after the game, is it so harrowing that two strangers, who have spent years in preparation to stake their reputations on the swing of a blade, should do the same? And the biting incident...
...threatens to destroy him because he cannot control it. Beginning last July with the assassination of Matteoti, the Socialist deputy, there has been a sucqession of disturbances which culminated in the Italian Armistice Day riot. The grandson of the great Garibaldi has even challenged Mussolini to a duel but has not been answered...