Word: duel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...army. He went to work for a Suez Canal contractor, had been jobless since the British invasion when he wrote a letter to Box F-1794 the Times, in answer to a classified ad for an advertising salesman. Wrote Powell: "I can ride a show jumper or fight a duel. I can swim a river, kick a cad where it hurts-or play chess with a debutante. I once shot a bandit in Sumatra. I could do anything from baby sitting to playing a balalaika in the Andes...
Kilty's only error is his staging of Cyrano's improvised ballade duel. But then I have never seen this scene done correctly outside of France. This is supposed to be a feat to epater les bourgeois. And the feat lies neither in expert swordplay nor in improvising a poem about it, but rather in doing both simultaneously. The duelling should be done strictly in time with the flowing cadences of the verse. But here there are so many pauses between phrases and lines that the stunning effect of the tour de force is lost; the tongue...
...answering them, with the help of two weekly guests ranging from a British ambassador to Gypsy Rose Lee. Moderator Bergen Evans and Panelist John Mason Brown have fought a running duel over such issues as dangling prepositions, split infinitives, and smokes that "taste good like a cigarette should...
...keep tabs on TV's most persistent and most boring feud, the Sunday-night duel between NBC's Steve Allen and CBS's Ed Sullivan, the TV industry checks the Monday-morning Trendex ratings and awards the battle stars to the show that captured more viewers. Last week the broadcasters learned from pulse-taker A.C. Nielsen Co. a crucial fact the viewing public knew a long time ago. As many as 14 times within the hour, Nielsen deduced, audiences switch from Sullivan to Allen and back. The average viewer remains "loyal" to one of the shows only...
Bryan lost the nation's sympathy when he argued against admission of scientific evidence as irrelevant, thus avoiding "the duel to the death" he had promised. Without the evidence in his defense, Scopes was convicted, but the Appellate Court later reversed the decision on a technicality...