Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Bowdoin this afternoon at 4.15 o'clock on Soldiers Field. Coach Mitchell will not decide upon his moundsman until game time, but the Crimson mentor announced after yesterday's practice that all the other positions would be held down by the team that supported Puffer in his hurling duel against Catholic University Saturday...
...last week as two of its members settled an affair of honor with four-ounce boxing gloves. "Duelist" Schapira, a prominent Swiss resident of Paris, easily cuffed into submission his adversary, M. H. Tersieff, a onetime boxing champion of Roumania. While members of the Cercle were deploring the "execrable dueling form" of both men, a despatch from Bucharest announced a duel still more scandalous...
...young society woman of 18, whose name was deleted by the Hungarian censor, challenged to a duel with sabres a young man of equal rank, who had befouled her name while in his cups. When they faced each other accompanied by seconds, in a wood near Budapest, he stripped to the waist, according to the Hungarian dueling code, and demanded that she do likewise. When she refused he laughed, departed. Vexed, she wept...
Because President Coolidge stands as the political enigma of the country, an ordinary Senatorial campaign in Massachusetts takes on the aspect of a critical duel. In the President's home state, his friend and adviser, Senator William M. Butler, must vanquish the popular ex-Senator David L. Walsh or else expose the Administration to uncertain danger...
Until nine years ago the Republicans and Democrats of Congress held each spring a duel to death on the diamond. This year plans have been made to resume the annual inter-party baseball game at Griffith Stadium "as soon as weather permits, on some Saturday when the Washington American League team is away from home." The teams...