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...Snodgrass, the indomitable Sam ("The world is wery full of willains") Weller, the scapegrace Jingle, Mr. Wardle ("Joe? Drat that boy! He's asleep again!"), Serjeant Buzfuz, Mrs. Bardell, the pettifogging Dodson & Fogg. Most of the main "adventures in the course of enlightenment" are related-Winkle's duel with Dr. Slammer ("Mr. Pickwick, do not obtain the assistance of several peace officers to take either me or Dr. Slammer into custody. I say do not."), the "gammoning" of Rachel Wardle, Mr. Pickwick caught prowling in a lady's chamber, Mr. Pickwick brought to court by a woman...
Asked if he thought he could forestall the loss of maids, Perkins said, "I could offer to fight a duel with some other House Master. Then the loser's House would have to give up its maid service first...
...into this duel that the President of the U.S. stepped with an intuition about politics in 1954 which both parties could profit by. Dwight Eisenhower believes firmly in party responsibility, but, said he, the times are too perilous for extreme partisanship. Moreover, the people of the U.S. know the difference between political wild-talk and fact, and are likely to elect and re-elect on the basis of performance...
Starting for the Crimson in the foil match are Paul Forand, Walt Rawls, Stove Schneider, and Cliff Thompson, in a split line-up with all men except Forand fencing two bouts instead of the customary three. John Craig, Dave Kenney, and John Livingston will duel in the sabre division, and Phil Erard, Bill Pierskalla, and Captain Les Scherer, in the epee...
Princeton looms as the tougher of the two teams. Based on the power of its heavyweights, 177 pound Carleton MacDonald and undefeated Jim MacAleer, the Tiger figures to cop two key matches and possibly a third--the 157 pound duel between Captain Chick Chandler and Don Rumsfield, who beat Chandler last year...