Word: dueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Magnus Johnson. Although the reports of his milking contests have of late simmered into quietude, the Senator from Minnesota has by no means yet emptied his bag of tricks. The latest is an excursion to the Senate press gallery to challenge a home-state newspaper correspondant to a verbal duel. If all Minnesota citizens are as frank and as earnest as their radical senator, the roof of the Capital Building would probably have received some severe shocks. Fortunately the superintendent persuaded Senator Johnson to come with him for some air before the correspondent had an opportunity to get his Minnesota...
...with a letter from the Empress Catherine, announcing she intends to pay an unceremonious visit. A handsome young guardsman arrives as the Empress's vanguard and immediately begins to flirt with the girl Princess, whose imagination is stirred by the golden book. The husband intervenes, and a grotesque duel is cut short by the appearance of the Empress with one lady-in-waiting. The husband finds the latter's middle-aged charms so much more to his taste than those of the willful child he has married that the course of true love would undoubtedly run smooth were...
Rosenthal, by way of keeping up his jocose reputation, had challenged Vladimir de Pachmann (TIME, Sept. 10) to a pianistic duel. Whether this will consist of seeing who can run an octave with the greatest speed by the stopwatch or whether they will throw pianos at each other has not been determined. In any case, however, Rosenthal insists that the rules be such that if de Pachmann makes any of his famous remarks during the combat there shall be counted a foul...
Italian officers and soldiers of cowardice. Bruno Gemelli, Italian War hero and recipient of the gold medal for military valor, telegraphed him to consider himself slapped in the face, challenged him to a duel on the field of honor. M. Cassagrain, who failed to get any sting out of the hypothetical slap, telegraphed back that his wife was responsible for the derogatory statements about the Italian Army, begged to be excused...
...taken up by the Allies; but this is hardly news. Likewise his account of the German occupation of the Ukraine, and of the Czecho-Slovaks in Siberia is good but not novel; and the same may be said for his quite spirited narrative of the diplomatic and propagandist duel that led to the Anglo-Russian Agreement of 1921. On the other hand there are astonishing gaps and omissions. He is practically silent on topics such as the Third International and its relation to foreign propaganda, the execution of the Czar, the debasement of the currency, Lenin's "strategic retreat" towards...