Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...possible that a duel will take place between Senator-Elect Riddleberger of Virginia and Page McCarty, the Washington correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch...
Legislative action is being taken against the practice of student-duelling in Germany and in Zurich, and a law has been passed against the duel in any form whatever. Consequently, one hundred students have pledged to leave the university and go to some institution where time-honored customs are not interfered with by meddling legislators. The way of the peacemaker is hard...
...fatal duel took place yesterday between two jealous women near Wilmington...
...Virginia Senate yesterday, Senator Smith retracted all remarks made the day before, and Senator Riddleberger acknowledged satisfaction. This dispels all ideas of a duel...
...cowardly attack upon our esteemed friend "Ephraim" in the last number of the Athenaeum. This gentleman has certainly not laid himself open to personal asperities; his reviews and criticisms have been distinguished for good temper, exact judgment, moderation, and ability; and his manly refusal to enter into any duel with the Athenaeum can only confirm us in our previous high opinion...