Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foundation of our Constitution was the good sense of the majority of the nation. The three-party system implied that we should never have majority rule. The idea that three parties should be firing at each other in a triangular duel, and that Government could thus effectively be carried on, was founded on a hopeless fallacy. . . . We must escape from that system and reestablish in its place some broad, solid and substantial foundation by which the King's Government can be carried on, not for a session, but for a full Parliament...
Sixth Game. Scene: Washington. Cast of Pitchers: Arthur Nehf of New York, J. T. Zachary of Washington. (Zachary is called "Zack the Giant Killer" by facetious friends. His full name is Jezebel Tecumseh Zachary). They duel. Immediately, enter Young and Kelly of New York. Each singles. Young scores. The duel continues. Enter Roger Peckinpaugh of Washington, who singles; Muddy Ruel, who sacrifices; McNeely, who walks. Enter Manager Bucky Harris. He stings a single over third, scoring Peckinbaugh and McNeely. The duel continues, fiercely. Toward the end of the action Peckinbaugh's leg caves in. He is carried...
...greater part of the first half was taken up by a punting duel between Slagle and Dignan, with the advantage slightly on the side of the former. The whistle blew with the first string gridders in a position to score, Williams, who replaced Slagle, and Caldwell having placed the pigskin on the substitutes' 8-yard line. Another punting duel between Dignan and Williams featured the second half as well. The University line showed a marked weakness in charging and failed to open adequate holes for the backs...
...soldier. Fire and ice had altered the temper of his youth. Back again where riddles were playing, an elegant and austere figure, somewhat of a stranger to gaiety, he had fallen in love with Lavinia and she with him. The night before, he had challenged Gawin Todd to a duel for her hand; now he stood and watched her com ing down the stairs. He saw her silhouette above the banister, heard the thread of her frail singing and her cry, as she caught her heel in the carpet, slipped and fell down, down the great stairway-the thud...
...Several Madrid journals published a statement that General Primo de Rivera was going to fight a duel with another General, a member of the Directorate. Observe, gentlemen, that both Generals are present at this luncheon and on best terms...