Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last summer in London, Ballet Dancer Serge Lifar of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was severely criticized for taking curtain calls while the audience called for the ballerina. Ever since, Lifar has been grumpy, dissatisfied. Last week in Manhattan he challenged Ballet Director Leonide Massine to a duel in Central Park. Massine told him, "Take an aspirin." In a huff Lifar took instead the S. S. Champlain for Europe...
...James Island, where historically-minded Franklin Roosevelt, poring over Commander David Porter's Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean (1813), ordered a search (unsuccessful) for the grave of Lieut. John S. Cowan of Porter's frigate Essex, who died there in a pistol duel...
...blow my brains out everybody will know Barbara drove me to it," Solicitor Mitchell quoted Count Haugwitz-Reventlow as saying ; as to the murder victim, he was to be a "gentleman of London," (left unnamed by agreement of opposing counsel) who would first be challenged to a duel, than shot down "like...
...with the way she runs his household, he calls in the sister to assist her, Frou Frou is so broken-hearted that she runs away. Naturally, she does not run away alone; naturally, her escort is an irresponsible young gambler (Robert Young). Result of this situation is the inevitable duel. Result of the duel is Miss Rainer's best burst of blubbering since the one which got her her first Oscar in The Great Ziegfeld. Overdressed and antiquated, The Toy Wife redeems some of its defects by a conclusion which, to cinemaddicts who are infected by the spirit...
...Bruins evened the count yesterday in edging the Crimson nine 1-0 in a 14 inning mound duel at Providence. As Tom Healey was hurling his best game of the year in allowing Brown seven scattered safeties, the Mitchell batters were only able to nick Vin Devaney for three hits...