Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once he fought a strange duel: he and his opponent hid themselves behind targets on an artillery range, lay there all day under the gunfire. At dusk Gurdjieff, unharmed, rescued his antagonist who was wounded, unconscious. He spent his youth wandering in the East, trying everything once. Say his followers, in the Tibetan mountains he found traces of a forgotten way of life, as old as Pythagoras (532 B. C..); he returned to Europe to teach it to a few. He bought the medieval prieuré at Fontainebleau. turned it into his Institute. Institutees lived simply, worked hard, learned complicated Eastern...
...with the majesty of a beribboned frigate and boggles the English tongue in a way which has become literary legend. Transfixed with astonishment, she cries: "I am putrified!" Then there is Bob Acres, a rustic rival for Lydia's hand whose gentlemanly pretensions nearly involve him in a duel with...
...goalies duel was hardly as spectacular as expected with neither of the two net-defenders turning in as good a game as on the previous Saturday. Ellis made good all his saves, though a bit shaky on some of them, whereas Hawkes thrilled the crowd with some sensational stops but missed others that weren half as hard. Harvard proved the old axiom that a good offense is the best defense by continually forcing play...
...trend of the times indicates that the intelligent way to argue is to do it in the form of parleys. The younger contemporary of the London Parley, the Wesleyan annual discussion, an invitational affair, is to be held this year on American Business and Government. If the flery duel between Norman Thomas and Admiral Plunkett at the 1928 conference on War is any criterion, the impending and more pertinent argument on domestic conditions between lending statesmen and commercialists should be productive of an excellent display of pyrotechnics...
...introduces three daughters of a deceased Russian army officer who are compelled to remain in a slumbrous provincial town when they long for the bright Moscow of their imagination. Irina slowly shrivels a's she teaches school. Olga's devoted but unprepossessing lover is killed in a duel just after she has finally agreed to marry him. Masha's adulterous transports with a visiting lieutenant-colonel are ended when the regiment marches away. Maria Germanova plays Masha-a big, dark woman who laughs hysterically as her desires mount above her repressions and who whimpers like a wounded...