Word: dueling
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...first day of his duel with Hollywood's suspected Communists, Representative J. Parnell Thomas, a choleric man, smashed one gavel to a smither. Next day he turned up with two new ones, prepared, if necessary, to smash both to smithereens. The spot he had put himself in was enough to try the patience of a saint, and J. Parnell ("Undoubting Thomas," as the Nation called him) was no saint. But he hated Beelzebub, and he was trying to solve the fly problem with a horse whip...
...will not be able to hear themselves think. The scheme backfires in a curious way: with eyes drugged by the Technicolor and ears numbed by the weight of sound, cinemaddicts are in no shape to appreciate the movie's Big Attractions (The London Fire, The Great Plague, The Duel, Amber in Childbirth...
Vinco Moravec had died at the Stillman infirmary. Bill Bingham said we played the whole game under protest. Chip Gannon lost his memory and thought he was General Grant. Bill Bingham committed suicide. Dick Harlow and Ox DaGrosa fought a duel with pistols in the Hotel Kenmore and shot each other. Dave Egan had a nightmare. He dreamt there was a group of football teams called the Ivy League. Bill Bingham had a nightmare. He dreamt he didn't have enough nerve to commit suicide. President Dardon of Virginia had a nightmare. He dreamt he saw movies of a football...
Born. To Teresa Wright, 27, starry-eyed cinemactress (Best Years of Our Lives"), and Hollywood Writer Niven Busch, 44 (Duel in the Sun): their second child, first daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Mary Kelly. Weight...
...Bert Halses summer eight oared crews put the finishing touches to an active but informal rowing season at Weld Boat Club yesterday afternoon when they fought out a half-mile duel in a misty rain on the Charles River...