Word: dueling
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...school history of England a satisfactory guide. How many Englishmen know how the thousands of American prisoners were treated on Long Island in the war of the revolution? How many Americans know how the captain of the Shannon was wounded and doomed to a life of pain in the duel with the Chesapeake? There are far greater things of which the history should be known. It is only since the world war revealed something of the strength and the resources of the United States that the younger people of England have turned their eyes with new looks of interest...
...that once he has married he will never be able to escape. He, therefore, after consulting scholars and learned men, decides not to marry Dorimene. The climax of the play comes, however, when he is forced to do so by a challenge from his flancee's brother, to a duel...
When we were children we used to dislike taking pills. So the doctors, like the men in G. B. S.'s "duel of sex", promptly went us one step better, and coated those pills with sugar. After that it was better; we even conceived a certain liking for being dosed--provided that the pills were sweet enough. Susan Glaspoll's "Inheritors" is like that: a strong and rather disagreeable moral lesson in three acts sufficiently coated with technique and artistry to be palatable--enjoyable...
...Punting Duel Promised...
...work of the linesmen is a virtual draw today and the backfield play decides the issue, the eventual outcome may well depend on how Simendinger's punting compares with that of Fitts. The former has been booting some lengthy spirals in practice lately and is well qualified for a duel with the Crimson left-footer...