Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...second act, Ravensbane enters the family of the Justice. He fascinates Rachel, who, in, turn, inspires in him an emotion that gradually becomes actual human love. Rachel throws over Richard, her betrothed, who challenges Ravensbane to a duel. In the third act, as the climax of a series of scenes, humorous on the surface, yet large with tragic significance, Ravensbane is suddenly confronted with his scarecrow self, in the the glass of Truth. At the beginning of the fourth act, he is found in the deepest agonies of despair, for his kindled spirit revolts at sight of himself...
...Brookline tank there was a swimming meet. It was a handicap meet: Harvard met Yale. Now if by some extraordinary chance any one of the invisible legislators of Harvard athletic rules, whom all men concede to be the most gifted handicappers in the world, were present at this aquatie duel, he would have seen in all its broadcast evil and unfairness the severity of his own law. As it is, he may read about it in the papers to dismiss it with a tush...
...last of the plays, "La Gifle," is a short and witty face, with repaid action and amusing lines. Blanch-Misseron, a deputy of the Chamber, desires to fight a duel, in order to silence the mockers who have ridiculed his passive attitude toward his adversaries. He therefore picks a quarrel with an army officer, Jules Chamberiot, who has come to the office of the ministry to file a claim for a cross of the Leghorn of Honor, but who lacks the necessary deputy's, endorsement for his petition. Blanche-Misserone agrees to endorse the solder's petition, and Chamber...
...second half, Harvard took a brace, and a punting duel resulted between Grant and Minot, who had taken Cutler's place. The last three minutes of play furnished the sensation of the game. After the Freshmen had received the ball on a punt on their own ten-yard line, Minot made a long forward pass to Crowley, who carried the ball to Dean's 15-yard line. Another forward pass was tried, and Minot recovered the ball, on the four-yard line. On the next play Minot carried it over the line...
...practically all their gains were made by these plays. The score was made by Trumbull who intercepted a forward pass on Middlesex's 40-yard line, and with a clear field before him carried the ball 70 yards for a touchdown. The second half was largely a punting duel between Paine and Hoffstodt, in which the latter out-kicked the former by a large margin...