Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Rumania, who is only as old as a middle-aged woman,* remembers Ion Bratianu as the Father of His Country. The land was profoundly stirred last week when Father Ion's able grandson George Bratianu, leader of the Liberal Party, had to fight a nasty duel...
Europe. A certain General Adolfo Baldrich promptly challenged General Uriburu to duel. General Uriburu announced that his pleasure trip to Europe was really a most pressing trip to Germany where he would undergo a necessary surgical operation. General Baldrich repeated his challenge. The Government intervened. ' It announced: "Senator Palacios, the great authority on duelling codes, has ruled that insufficient grounds exist for this challenge." Meanwhile, famed Dr. Hypolito Irigoyen who, as President, was overthrown by the coup d'état of General Uriburu, was let out of jail, promptly resumed his political activities. Back from exile arrived...
...illustrated talk last night in the Senior Common Room on "Giants, Dwarfs, and the Pituitary Gland." Some of the famous freaks of human development were described, including Jeffery Hudson, a court jester in the time of Charles First, who although only 18 inches tall killed an opponent in a duel and lived to the age of 63; and the Russian giant Machnow, who attained the height of nine feet, three inches. Slides were shown explaining the experimental gigantism produced in rats by the injection of pituitary gland extracts...
There is always at least one moment of ridiculous melodrama in the Show. This came last week when the Countess Ida Marie von Claussen, who once challenged President Roosevelt to a duel, hurled a red ribbon at Judge Walter J. Graham. She considered that her toy poodle. Caprice, had been insulted by not getting the blue...
What Labor and Liberals have been preaching for years became an actuality in Wisconsin last week. Passed after a two-month legislative wrangle, during which one Senator challenged another to a "duel" with boxing gloves, was a bill to provide statewide unemployment insurance. Wisconsin was the first State in the Union to enact such a measure...