Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knowledge of English in conversing with me: the result was that I spent the day guzzling with them, and cemented our friendship with liquid mortar. And very pleased I was to receive an invitation to attend a secret Mensuren on the coming Friday, July 20, 1925. I saw nine duels and was as tense during the performance as any of the contestants. Each duel consisted of four sets; a set was made up of four ''strikes'' or blows. One of the important tasks of the officials was to straighten out the rapiers, at times bent almost...
...Heidelberg last week it was announced that to celebrate the removal of government prohibition of duels, the 34 student fighting corps would hold a duel a day henceforth. Nonmember spectators will be banned from combats of the five most exclusive corps. Herr Ruehlemann, University bandagist, took advantage of the occasion to fill his windows with dueling blades, lint, surgical needles, disinfectants. In the midst of the display was a photograph of Adolf Hitler.-ED. Fencers From Offenbach Sirs...
...United States Government might abandon the gold standard. . . ." These were soft words for foreign consumption. Hardly was the speech finished before Lombard Street tipsters were insisting that the present ?150,000,000 fund would be raised to ?200,000,000 possibly to ?500,00,000 in preparation for a duel with the dollar. Wrote Economist John Maynard Keynes: "It demonstrates that we intend to remain the masters of our own situation. The United States is perfectly entitled to reduce the gold content of the dollar. There is much to be said for this policy, not only for America...
...Alley) is an ancient beer hall and on an upper floor is a long timbered room known to tourists as the oldest fencing hall in Germany. Here for over 100 years members of the student fighting corps have staged their slashing bouts. The Republic's law against student dueling was lifted in Prussia, Bavaria and Baden three weeks ago (TIME, April 17). Heidelberg boys celebrated Adolf Hitler's birthday last week by holding the first public, open, officially recognized student duel in the University's 547 years...
There were two bouts: Teutonia v. Zaringia; Shibellinia v. Rheno-Palatia. Members of the four fighting corps sat in separate groups, embroidered caps on their heads, colored ribbons across their chests, very solemn, very earnestly drinking beer. Official guests, something new for a student duel, were the Rector of the University, Dr. Willy Andreas, a group of professors, the chief of police of Heidelberg and the State's Attorney for Baden. The spectators' gallery was jammed with alumni, Nazis in uniform, even a few women...