Word: duel
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Monsieur Henri Beraud is apparently unwilling to let an old tradition die. Instead of trusting a ponderous and modern law of libel to crash his annoying critics into silence he has polished up his grandfather's rapier, frothed slightly at the mouth, and challenged them en masse to a duel in the true Dumas style. As yet there are no indications that the editors who objected to Monsieur Beraud's new novel have entered into the spirit of the occasion by sending their seconds...
...frontier stations on the Italo-Swiss border became incensed at the sight of some Fascisti. They cried out: "Down with Italy!" "Down with the Fascisti!" "Down with Mussolini!" This incident had two results: Lieutenant Guido Gavani challenged Colonel Gusser, commander of the Swiss regiment, to a duel for slurring the fair name of Fascismo. Benito Mussolini, swallowing his own pride, called upon the Swiss Government to apologize for having insulted Italy. The Swiss Government uttered its concern and promised an inquiry and punishment for the offenders...
...comeliness, Fanny Brice is characteristically diverting in several skits, and Clyde Cook, cinema buffoon and onetime Hippodrome favorite, falls about sedulously until he cracks, laughs and nearly breaks his neck. There is a new Victor Herbert ballet, and a Ben Ali Haggin tableau, lustrous and well poised, called The Duel for the sake of a change. But the underlying fabric is of the customary silks and satins...
...Hungarian students at the University of Budapest fell in love with the same girl. One challenged the other to a duel...
...seconds then declared that honor had been satisfied and the umpire pronounced the duel a draw...