Word: dueling
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...Angeles) owes his success to the fact that he is not a professional cook, but an actor who can ad lib and keep guest cooks laughing. Another NBC cook, this one a past master, felt obligated on one Home show from New York to fight a duel with skewers of shish kebab while singing I Love...
...senior doubles race against Kelley and his partner William Knecht on the Charles, Ned Ames and Bill Hoadley finished only two seconds behind the pair over the mile course. Winning time in the sce-saw duel...
...student appeal to arms occurred in March, the faculty was unaware of the event until May. By then alarming rumors were aboard, and the faculty decided to vote on the question, "Is it expedient for this government to institute an inquiry into the foundation of a report of a duel, said to have been fought lately between two students?" The "government" decided that the inquiry would indeed be interesting, if not expedient, and consequently charged its investigators to bring in the facts...
...some difficulty, and by unknown means, the faculty discovered that on the night of March 22 one Wainwright Foster had been guilty of conduct toward a certain George English which was "insulting and irritating in both words and actions." Foster, who seemed the aggressor, thereafter challenged English to a duel that same evening. As Mr. English was not one to go off half-cocked, he refused to defend his honor that evening, but promised to do so the next morning if Mr. Foster insisted. Foster was very insistent, and seconds were duly appointed--a Mr. Bullard and a Mr. Wallack...
Back in the days when such petty offenses as yawning in chapel brought students punishment, one could hardly expect the Faculty to look kindly on students' playing with pistols--loaded or not. Although the Harvard duel was a harmless one and actually amusing, the professors and tutors were irate. After "long and painful consideration" they solemnly admonished Foster, English, and the two benign seconds...