Word: duel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong as Germany can permanently be regarded as inferior. The coat cut in 1918 is no longer in fashion. Economic and political forces are breaking it at every seam. MacDonald's thesis seems right: it is better to redesign this coat in a peaceful manner than wait for a duel to kill the owner and his neighbors...
...Harvard starting line-up tomorrow will be composed entirely of first-string players, with Loughlin, who twirled in the Pennsylvania and Princeton games, on the mound. Although he has shown up well in practice this week, Loughlin will undoubtedly experience considerable difficulty in his pitching duel with Captain Ray White, of Columbia, who has lost only two Intercollegiate League contests in three years. This season, in his first two games, the Columbia leader has made a record of 16 scoreless innings and 18 strike-outs...
...late good friend Clemente, who was assassinated last year. Last week a Vasquez Bello man, Representative Arturo B. Aleman, wrote a letter to the newspaper Information answering small gossip he had heard that Carlos had spread about him. Promptly Carlos sent his seconds to Aleman to demand a duel (illegal in Cuba). Aleman chose seconds and primed his pistols. Groaning, President Gerardo Machado sent for Brother Carlos, told him to disappear until the bicker had been settled...
...Settle them cases yourself." Andy settled them, he never sued. When he courted Rachel Donelson Robards, another man's wife, and married her in all innocence before she was technically divorced, the affair became a perennial source of affronts which he was quick to resent. In his famed duel with Charles Dickinson, a crack shot. Jackson expected to be hit first but counted on his will-power to pull him through. He was hit, near the heart, but he killed Dickinson...
...Boston" program sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, authorities of the Fogg Art Museum, are not only presenting three lectures but are opening numerous exhibits today. These include a special exhibition of water colors by outstanding modern American artists, drawings from the Loeser collection, Japanese prints from the Duel collection, and a display of early American furniture, painting, and silver...