Word: duelist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lean weapon slowly into position knew that they were about to witness a tragedy. Count Skrzynski did not know how to miss; he was one of the deadliest shots in Warsaw. "One . . ." said the umpire, telling off the first of the five seconds which the Polish code allows a duelist in which to return his opponent's fire. "Two. . . ." With an almost unbearable suspense the aides saw the Count take aim. The General had refused to shake his hand one day in the Cracow Military Club and when asked for an explanation replied that there was only one tongue...
Orthodox members of the fashionable Parisian Cercle de I' Escrime (Fencing Club) all but wept last week as two of its members settled an affair of honor with four-ounce boxing gloves. "Duelist" Schapira, a prominent Swiss resident of Paris, easily cuffed into submission his adversary, M. H. Tersieff, a onetime boxing champion of Roumania. While members of the Cercle were deploring the "execrable dueling form" of both men, a despatch from Bucharest announced a duel still more scandalous...
...Vexed, a would-be duelist wept...
Alaunts Double, a bulldog as scarred and seamed and magnetically ugly as a Prussian duelist. Owned by Lee & Rawes of Philadelphia. There was an even uglier dog in this class, Sensible Fred, owned by Thomas Grisdale of New York. But he was not quite so sound as Alaunts, and soundness, in a bulldog, is more important even than spectacular hideousness...
...novelist laying aside a vitriolic pen to challenge a crowned head of Europe? It is not likely that the pride of a Hapsburg-Bourbon will brook such an affront. Yet, even in this case, Ibanez has the long odds. He has looked over the King's record as a duelist and finds it poor. Besides, and the truth of this charge particularly infuriates the royalists, the King's manner of living in the last few years could not possibly be called training. How simple for the abusive Ibanez to score royal, touch, a triumph greater than any literary success...