Word: duel
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...strong as Germany can permanently be regarded as inferior. The coat cut in 1918 is no longer in fashion. Economic and political forces are breaking it at every seam. MacDonald's thesis seems right: it is better to redesign this coat in a peaceful manner than wait for a duel to kill the owner and his neighbors...
...Alley) is an ancient beer hall and on an upper floor is a long timbered room known to tourists as the oldest fencing hall in Germany. Here for over 100 years members of the student fighting corps have staged their slashing bouts. The Republic's law against student dueling was lifted in Prussia, Bavaria and Baden three weeks ago (TIME, April 17). Heidelberg boys celebrated Adolf Hitler's birthday last week by holding the first public, open, officially recognized student duel in the University's 547 years...
There were two bouts: Teutonia v. Zaringia; Shibellinia v. Rheno-Palatia. Members of the four fighting corps sat in separate groups, embroidered caps on their heads, colored ribbons across their chests, very solemn, very earnestly drinking beer. Official guests, something new for a student duel, were the Rector of the University, Dr. Willy Andreas, a group of professors, the chief of police of Heidelberg and the State's Attorney for Baden. The spectators' gallery was jammed with alumni, Nazis in uniform, even a few women...
...Harvard starting line-up tomorrow will be composed entirely of first-string players, with Loughlin, who twirled in the Pennsylvania and Princeton games, on the mound. Although he has shown up well in practice this week, Loughlin will undoubtedly experience considerable difficulty in his pitching duel with Captain Ray White, of Columbia, who has lost only two Intercollegiate League contests in three years. This season, in his first two games, the Columbia leader has made a record of 16 scoreless innings and 18 strike-outs...
...late good friend Clemente, who was assassinated last year. Last week a Vasquez Bello man, Representative Arturo B. Aleman, wrote a letter to the newspaper Information answering small gossip he had heard that Carlos had spread about him. Promptly Carlos sent his seconds to Aleman to demand a duel (illegal in Cuba). Aleman chose seconds and primed his pistols. Groaning, President Gerardo Machado sent for Brother Carlos, told him to disappear until the bicker had been settled...