Word: dueling
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...Washington, police had to break up a duel between two crotchety Spanish-American war veterans named Emilio Capeto and John Cook. They got into an argument over a woman, began fencing creakily with their canes, ended up by banging each other over the head...
...years of agile living, Sicilian Monarchist Count Ernesto Perrier has fought nine duels-the last two with rival Monarchist Prince Gianfranco Alliata de Montereale. Not long ago Swordsman Perrier pinked Montereale over a disagreement about the Monarchist Party platform. Four months later they were at it again. Again Perrier won. This time there was no likelihood of another duel. The fact that dueling was against the law mattered little. It was simply too expensive...
...used to be," said Perrier, who once made a fortune selling real estate in the U.S. and lost it gambling in Havana, "that you could fight a nice duel for two or three thousand lire. Now it costs 25,000 ($111 ) or more. How do you spend the money? Well, you have to rent the swords. That's 5,000. Then there are the doctors -another 5,000. Then a dinner for your seconds-10,000. And of course you have to take a taxi. It's too much. I don't know anyone I dislike well...
...possible repetition of last Saturday's pitching duel between the varsity's Brendon Reilly and Princeton's Bob Wolcott lies in store for College baseball fans tomorrow, when the Crimson meets the Tigers in a 3 o'clock contest at Soldiers Field...
...Western standbys have been dragged in; the gun duel in the middle of the streets, the saloon killing, and the fight over fencing up the open range. Perhaps the most overworked angle involved the arrival of the U.S. Cavalry with bright blue uniforms and waving flags to patch things up when a crisis impends. Interspersed among the cliches are a number of bedroom passages involving Jennifer and Gregory, a bunch of mob scenes in the grand old DeMille tradition, and here and there a few small bits of genuine character portrayal. To cap off this two-hour-plus marathon there...