Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later MM. La Chambre and Renouvin met in a dawn-grey field near St. Malo. M. La Chambre, being the insulted one, had chosen the weapons: standard dueling rapiers with bell guards. The referee, famed Fencing Master Phillippe Cattiaux, held out his rapier and the combatants rested the needle points of their shivering blades on it. The referee dropped his rapier. Zing! Clang! M. La Chambre slashed M. Renouvin's blade aside, stuck M. Renouvin decisively in his working arm. A few seconds old, the duel was over. M. La Chambre was no assassin and M. Renouvin...
After a brilliant exhibition by John G. Hurt '34, last year's fencing captain, and Levis, the climax of the evening was reached with a furious but humorous duel between Levis and Brusati...
Victory came to Mrs. Hill after a 24-hour duel over the Whitemarsh Valley Course that equalled the title tourney's marathon record established in 1929 when Mrs. Leo G. Federman of New York defeated Mrs. Helen Statson at Oakland Hills...
...leeward. She broke out a new one quickly, rounded General Cornelius Vanderbilt's yacht Winchester, used for the halfway mark in the absence of a buoy, five minutes ahead of Endeavour. She matched every effort the challenger made in a tacking duel on the beat home and crossed the line almost a mile ahead, needing only one more victory to decide the series...
...full minute behind. She had first hoisted a double-clew jib, then changed to a Genoa just before the start. On the 15-mile beat that started the 30-mile windward and leeward course, Rainbow tacked first, crossed Endeavour's bow, held her advantage in a tacking duel as they neared the turning buoy, rounded it almost three minutes ahead. Coming back before the wind, both boats broke out parachute spinnakers, took them in when the breeze, scarcely enough to ripple the surface of the groundswell, backed up to the north. Time limit for America's Cup races...