Word: duel
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...Rene Peroy intends to use John S. Hurd '34, Robert C. Ackerman '34, and Philip F. Lilienthal '36 in the foils event. Webster F. Williams, Jr. '35 and Edward E. Langenan '35 will represent Harvard in the epee event and Edward A. Ackerman '34 and Richard Morgan '36 will duel in the sabre event...
...ladies in the snout, and telescopes their jaws as the occasion requires; he enters the picture as a tough usher, graduates to the jewel thief class, kicks up a jump to a movie star's berth, and finishes the whirlwind by aiding the police in a running machine-gun duel with the old gang, in the course of which the old gang is almost totally exterminated. Naturally, that Cagney trademark, rough treatment of the squooshy sex, is not neglected. In a scene which will feed the starved souls of Back Bay mocha-moochers, Jimmy drags a hopped-up moll across...
...like beavers wiring down iron gratings, removing fences from tree trunks, piles of paving blocks and other impromptu weapons, and warning cafe proprietors to clear their terraces of siphons and heavy saucers. A dozen times angry crowds, led by Royalists, were beaten back by police reserves. Meanwhile the first duel resulting from Stavisky revelations was fought by Deputy André Hesse and Lawyer Joseph Beneix in the empty stadium of the Parc des Princes which can seat 20,000. The duelists missed each other twice and stalked furiously from the field. When dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe privately warned...
...this welter emerged, as French tradition asserted itself, two seconds for each contestant who pulled them apart, sent for stenographic reports of what Accuser Henriot had said, and began to debate on a high chivalric plane whether there should be a duel. "It would be the first political duel since Clemenceau!" exclaimed bloodthirsty oldsters, delighted. "Just like old times! Remember how Clemenceau provoked Decassagnac to challenge him by walking up to Decassagnac in a cafe and stirring his coffee with his cane? Those were the times...
Meanwhile Minister de Monzie and Accuser Henriot had not yet fought their duel, but the Government grew so nervous as debate on the Stavisky scandal was resumed that 5,000 foot and mounted police were thrown around the Chamber of Deputies. Angry citizens resumed their anti-Government demonstrations, shouted hour after hour in the direction of the Chamber "Assassins! Thieves! Staviskys!" Royalist demonstrators shouting "Down with the Republic!" and "Long live the Due de Guise!" [the Bourbon pretender to the Throne of France who lives in Belgium] smashed windows, tore up paving stones which they hurled at the police...