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...Preston Kendrick (Reed Brown Jr.). Humiliated when she finds that, tired of waiting, he has already married a demure Yankee girl, Miss Julie behaves without regard for decency or decorum. She inveigles a young hot-head named Buck Buckner into picking a quarrel with Preston, hoping that they will duel and that Preston will be pinked. Instead, Preston's young brother (Owen Davis Jr.) shoots Buck Buckner dead. At this point a touch of speakeasy dialect slips into the Dixie murmurings of Playwright Owen Davis. One of the guests at Twin Oaks looks straight at Miss Julie and says...
...York State like it is down in Kentucky, so I am afraid to come up there and "crack down on you," to borrow the language recently used by a sure enough full-grown American citizen, officer and gentleman. Neither can I send you a challenge to fight a duel, which would be the gentlemanly thing to do, because no one down in Old Kentucky can hold an office until he swears that he has neither fought a duel nor accepted a challenge to fight one, and I am not through with holding public office so far as my own free...
...charmed life of a tomcat. At the turn of the century Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau picked young Tomcat Sarraut as a likely scrapping partner in the bitter Dreyfus affair. As Clemenceau's Under- secretary of Interior, M. Sarraut was challenged by a certain Deputy Pugliesi-Conti to duel over the rehabilitation of Jew Dreyfus. He accepted "on condition that it is to the death." Tomcat Sarraut's seconds thought he was dead when they carried him off the field run completely through the body by his opponent's dueling rapier, but he had lost only his first life...
Aside from this the match was slow, consisting of a punting duel between Bilodeau and Exeter's Kagain. The prep-school suffered a serious loss in the first period when Captain Hamelin Turner left the game with a pulled cartilege in his left knee...
After the kick-off, Dean immediately carried the ball-down to the goal line, but lost it there on an incomplete pass. Harvard kicked to midfield, and the quarter ended there in a duel of punts...