Word: duel
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...actual test of what can be expected for the winter season will be made in the middle of the month when in place of the annual handicap meet, there will be a duel between the Freshmen and Varsity. And already it's being whispered confidentially that the Freshmen have a good chance of winning...
...years, embittered Aaron Burr used to haunt Manhattan's Battery for news of her ship. Also on view was a portrait of an even prettier woman, widowed by Aaron Burr: Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, painted by Ralph Earl while he was in prison for debt. Though the Burr-Hamilton duel occurred in 1804, handsome Mrs. Hamilton lived half a century after it, died in New York...
...join struggling Editor Benito Mussolini and become a Fascist. Son Galeazzo was a Fascist zealot before he was out of his teens. After a law degree at the University of Rome, he became theatre and book reviewer on Nuovo Paese, the first Fascist newspaper in Rome, fought a duel with a Communist whom he gravely wounded, later signed the fellow up as a Fascist...
...leaving for the front, has come to him for advice and help. It carries him through his classes, where his students pull all their dirty tricks, through his drunken afternoon, when agonizing memories assail him, into the climactic, ridiculous night, when he finds himself challenged to a duel. Around him tragedies worse than his own are piling up. The headmaster's son has been shot; French troops have mutinied; there have been riots at the railway as the troops embarked for the front; the daughter of a town official has robbed her father and started for Paris; an embittered...
...riot at the railway station Cripure takes the part of the soldiers, suddenly biffs a distinguished, patriotic colleague and is challenged to a duel. As he prepares his will in the certainty that he will be killed, strange things happen: his housekeeper, whom he had expected to be greedy for his money, turns out to try to fight for him. Others rush to his defense, old friends appear, his opponent is caught in some shabby trickery and Cripure saved. But the old faker, more startled at humanity's occasional goodness than at its depravity, ends his moment of peace...