Word: dueling
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...have broken all Harvard records for ice-cream consumption by eating eighteen dishes after dinner stop Having just consumed forty small dishes equalling twenty large dishes of ice-cream directly after dinner I consider myself worthy of defending Princeton's honor by challenging you to an ice-cream consumption duel after the Harvard-Princeton football game next Saturday stop Since I am not a runner I suggest we play eighteen holes of golf before breakfast next morning stop Princeton hopes Harvard's ice-cream champion will not get cold feet." (Signed) Paul Vermont Tector...
...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...
Opening of the story is a falsified military report by the narrator, a French officer, concerning the death of Lieutenant De Queslain in a duel with a Serbian captain. The rest of the story, told by De Queslain to the narrator the night before his death, unravels the real story behind the duel...
...pillagers. He did his best to follow instructions, got cut off every time only because he was not thoroughgoing enough. Once they passed a Serbian prisoner who spotted part of De Queslain's French uniform. This was the Serbian captain who later challenged him to a duel because he had supposed De Queslain had joined the Albanians in their looting. After an interminable amount of this bloodcurdling kind of business, De Queslain and Lena found a protected spot. But at the moment when he might have escaped, De Queslain was seized with a frenzy like the Albanians . Overpowering Lena...