Word: dueling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Building Service organizer Robert H. Everitt revealed that he had challenged to a debate mysterious officials who opened a drive to establish a company union last Saturday. All 2700 workers employed by the College have been invited to the duel, scheduled for Friday night in Cypress Hall...
Avenging last week's defeat the Varsity Polo team Saturday night nosed out the Candlewood riders 8 to 71/2 in a close-fought duel at the Commonwealth Armory...
...papers and the reading public knew that Mr. Culbertson slept in silk pajamas and smoked monogrammed cigarets. The next year, in a blaze of newspaper publicity instigated by hard-working Mr. Sennenberg, the Culbertsons challenged Sidney S. Lenz, who held different views about the opening two-bid, to a duel of 150 rubbers. The Culbertsons won by 8,980 points and Mr. Culbertson began to appear in advertising testimonials...
...receipt of your telegram stop Please be advised that I should like very much to go to bat with you in an ice-cream eating duel stop Where shall we eat stop If Princeton beats Harvard in Saturday's football game I am willing to eat at Princeton stop If Harvard wins are you willing to come to Cambridge stop If tie I suggest eating at New Haven stop Await reply...
...space to contemporary modes and fashions, interspersing brisk epigrammatic surveys of political movements, quoting newspapers, hotel menus indiscriminately, in the effort to keep not only his subject but his background alive in the reader's mind. The method adds sparkle but leads to trivia (example: Moore's "duel" with the Reviewer Jeffrey which, interrupted by the police, ended in Bow Street station, and gave rise to malicious rumors that the pistols hadn't been loaded anyway...