Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Parts of Dr. Simmon's biography are very dramatic. His account of the duel between Pushkin and Baron d' Anthes, as a result of which the poet died, take on the attributes of a tragic drama. One can almost visualize a Hollywood movie version of Pushkin's life. For the life, in general, partook of melodrama: the protagonist was descended of an aristocratic family on his father's side while his mother was the lineal descendant of an Ethiopian prince, whom Peter the Great had acquired from the Sultan of Turkey. It was a far cry from the Sublime Porte...
...Anthés, who had been making violent love to Natalya, but was robbed of his prey when d'Anthés sidestepped him by marrying Natalya's sister. When d'Anthés later returned to the attack, so did Pushkin; and this time the duel took place. Both men were hit, Pushkin fatally. Seven years after that, still-beauteous, Natalya married a major general in the cavalry. This time she was really happy...
...heroine marry the right man, and wish that she had married the wrong, but most of the time it struggles along with some time-unhonored devices that can't help shooting wide of their marks. The ending is particularly unfortunate. The heroine rushes on to the scene of the duel between her newly-valued husband and her worthless duke of a lover, manages to be the only one hit, and is reconciled with her worthy spouse, in the arms of him and the face of death. There follows an imaginative scene whose fantasy draws nothing but uninvited laughter...
...actual test of what can be expected for the winter season will be made in the middle of the month when in place of the annual handicap meet, there will be a duel between the Freshmen and Varsity. And already it's being whispered confidentially that the Freshmen have a good chance of winning...
...years, embittered Aaron Burr used to haunt Manhattan's Battery for news of her ship. Also on view was a portrait of an even prettier woman, widowed by Aaron Burr: Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, painted by Ralph Earl while he was in prison for debt. Though the Burr-Hamilton duel occurred in 1804, handsome Mrs. Hamilton lived half a century after it, died in New York...