Word: dueling
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...Rivera '09, a native Porto Rican, acted the complicated role of Don Narciso to perfection. His boasting over-bearance when he first receives the bouquets, his terror-stricken surprise as the pretended husbands challenge him to duel, and his laughing submission when he finally sees that the joke is on him were realistically performed. M. H. Woolman sC. made a capital Don Ramon, successfully taking the audience into his confidence when he turned the joke on Don Narciso, and indulged in unrestrained laughter...
They come in one by one, pretending to be the husbands of the three women who have sent the flowers. The first, El Capitan, challenges Narciso to a duel. Rather than admit that he has been falsifying, he accepts. El Boticario, the second, challenges him to a duel with two pills, one poison and the other harmless. Narciso immediately drives him out of the room. The third, El Quidam, proposes that, as his wife is in love with Narciso, he may as well support her and he pretends that he has forgotten his own and his wife's names...
...Alison's rejected suitor, believing that Marlowe is responsible for his misfortune in love, accuses the playwright of ill-conduct toward the girl. In order to save Alison's name. Marlowe ignores the insult and pretends to seize upon another with the result that he becomes engaged in the duel that causes his death...
...Marlowe's personality. The poet's pursuit of happiness, his love of fame and his reputed atheism struggle against his spirituality and his finer nature which has been awakened by his noble love for Alison. It is to shield the object of this love that Marlowe seeks the duel which ends so fatally for him. Tradition has it that Marlowe was killed in a vulgar tavern brawl, but in the play the more honorable motive for the quarrel has been supplied. From the cynical genius and voluptuous coarseness of the traditional Marlowe, has been created a charater acter which, struggling...
...Columbia gymnastic team defeated the University team by the score of 43 to 20 points in their first duel meet, in the Columbia gymnasium on Friday night. C. A. Woodbury '06 made the best individual score, winning both the horizontal bar and club swinging events. Columbia was especially strong on the flying rings and parallel bars, securing all three places in both events...