Word: duel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...punting drill, George Roberts and Mal McTernen continued their distance duel, neither halfback consistently outbooting the other. It now looks as though both will have a place in the starting backfield...
Clarence Chamberlin and Charles A. Levine became bitter enemies. Admiral Richard E. Byrd knocked out Bert Acosta with a flashlight as their plane circled over France. Joseph Marie Lebrix "sickened of being a valet" to Dieudonne Coste. Alexander Magyar challenged George Endres to a duel. To this tradition which dictates that men who have flown the North Atlantic together shall not long be friends, Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill last week lived up with a bang...
Charlie Kessler and Rus Allen look at present as though they will start the Amherst clash as guards, but no one will be surprised if Joe Neo shoves his way into the lineup before next Saturday. The pivot position has developed into a duel between last year's Eli starter, Bob Jones, and Henry Russell, a promising Sophomore. Jim Fearon, another second year man, may also see service this fall...
...people expected, 2,400 were in the audience. Worse still, Candidate Borah was in need of the night's rest he had lost on the train. Final damper was the Machine Age. Like many another politician, Senator Borah has accepted the adage that modern campaign is a duel by radio. In one of his first major radio trials, in Brooklyn last January, his friends found the great orator from Idaho far from impressive. The trouble was, he thought, that he had to pause too often to consult his manuscript. To Youngstown he went with no manuscript. For 80 minutes...
Greatest of Federalist scandals was the killing, in a duel, of Alexander Hamilton by his bitter political opponent, Aaron Burr. The New York Chronicle of July 13, 1804 described the fatal affair with impressive simplicity: "They then proceeded to load the pistols. . . . The gentleman who was to give the word then explained to the parties the rules. . . . Both parties took aim and fired. . . . The fire of Col. Burr took effect...