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...husband. For several years they stuck it out, till cumulative suspicion and repression hurled Justine into the arms of a lover, and Gale to the distractions of Spain. The lover proved less satisfying than the bull-fight-not the conventional scarlet-cloaked trickery, but a duel during which Gale rode bareback, crashing down gorges, wallowing through torrents, staggering up embankments, till finally he brought the bull to its knees...
...this fashion, last fortnight, did Nicholas B. Jones. 87, Civil War veteran of Enid, Okla.. describe a Lincoln-Shields duel near Springfield, Ill. He said it took place in 1861, when Shields, later Civil War general and Senator from Illinois and Missouri, was state auditor. Letters deriding him appeared in the Springfield Journal. He accused Lincoln, who refused to retract. According to the accepted ver sion of the Lincoln-Shields affair, broadswords were chosen and a site on the Missouri shore some 50 miles away. But friends interceded, prevented the duel...
...years ago Harvard defeated the University of Pittsburgh, supporting the proposition: "Education is the Curse of the Age". In view of the fact that it is necessary to choose the team for the coming debate immediately, the Debating Council will select the men for the coming forensic duel today at the scheduled meeting, instead of holding the customary try-outs. The debaters will be chosen from among the more experienced members of the Debating Council. The midyear examinations prevented the Council from holding the regular try-outs. The Council regrets the necessity for eliminating the try-outs in selecting...
...duel at anagrams or ask-me-another the betting would be in favor of Swope, who takes a fierce joy in games of omniscience. But Renaud might confidently give Swope a half-column handicap in a contest of humor. He edited the college humorous magazine, Chapparal, in his undergraduate days and is reputed no small wit. During an absence of Don Marquis from the Evening Post, Ralph Renaud conducted his funny column and made it just as funny. The most famed Renaud epigram: "It's not the heat, it's ihe stupidity...
Americans may be inclined to smile at the ways of polities in Mexico, where public opinion shifts with every duel. But here in politically-wise New England Massachusetts has supplied the nation with a Republican President; nevertheless in his party's year of triumph she votes for Al Smith and reelects Senator Walsh by a huge majority. She has close fights for the governorship, but in the legislature one party has an overwhelming majority. Today there is more of a fight between the Republican Mayor and the Republican Governor than between the two opposing parties in the election. Who will...