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There is always at least one moment of ridiculous melodrama in the Show. This came last week when the Countess Ida Marie von Claussen, who once challenged President Roosevelt to a duel, hurled a red ribbon at Judge Walter J. Graham. She considered that her toy poodle. Caprice, had been insulted by not getting the blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Remarkable Markable | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

What Labor and Liberals have been preaching for years became an actuality in Wisconsin last week. Passed after a two-month legislative wrangle, during which one Senator challenged another to a "duel" with boxing gloves, was a bill to provide statewide unemployment insurance. Wisconsin was the first State in the Union to enact such a measure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Wisconsin First | 2/8/1932 | See Source »

Alexander Magyar and George ("Yurga") Endres, New York-Budapest flyers; over the subsequent sale of their plane. Magyar challenged Endres to a duel which was never fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Friendships, Jan. 4, 1932 | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

Across one eyebrow ran a scar. Booth's eyebrow was scarred as the result of a false thrust in a stage duel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mummy | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

...Clapp, Gr., Daniel Draper, '34, A.B. Duel '35, B.B. Field '32, E.E. Gaskill, Gr., R.C. Gay '35, W.H. Goodson, Gr., W.F.R. Haigh, '33, F.E. Johnson '35, V.N. Keller '34, J.L. Magro '32, J.P. Lake '35, F.G. McLarty Gr., E.H. Rigg '34, B.C. Schmidt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLEE CLUB CHOOSES MEN FOR CONCERT | 11/13/1931 | See Source »

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