Word: duelist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lover, duelist, cowboy, playboy, musketeer on the screen, his private life was as romantic as his public. He traveled everywhere. His second wife was Mary ("America's Sweetheart") Pickford. Even when he was past 50, he leaped fences rather than go through gates, married the divorced wife of a British nobleman (a onetime mannequin), 20 years younger than himself...
...went up from Valencia in answer to a radio from Dictator's Son Bruno Mussolini asking that someone good be sent up to duel with him. The rendezvous was at 15,000 feet, eleven miles out to sea from Valencia, and according to Derek D. Dickinson each duelist was escorted by three planes which acted only as observers or seconds at the duel. The weapons: a Spanish-built copy of the U. S. Boeing P12 and Son Bruno's especially built streamlined Fiat...
...used every maneuver known to aviation," reported Duelist Dickinson. "Although I am disgusted with many of the criminal acts of the Fascist Governments, I want to salute young Mussolini. He is not only a gentleman but a very good fighter." The duel lasted as long as the aviators' ammunition held out (22 minutes) and afterward, unscathed Duelist Dickinson & friends counted 326 bullet holes in his plane. He received word that Duelist Mussolini had sustained a flesh wound...
...calibre of the first volume. Once Andrew Jackson is launched on the campaign that made him seventh U. S. President, Author James is pleasantly at home with a career which translated into politics "Old Hickory's" roaring virtues as an Indian and British fighter, frontier gallant, gambler, duelist. Apart from its fresh portraiture of Jackson, the book offers a well-lighted view of the background events which provided the dress rehearsal for the Civil...
...turn out to be larger-they had expected a bulging Gargantua in corsets, but Göring has really trained down, and Germany is training down, hard. Herr Göring gave a good account of himself at Rome in a fencing bout with Signor Mussolini, expert duelist. Commented a professional fencing master who witnessed the 20-minute bout: "Mussolini was faster and more agile. He showed his years of constant training. Göring was the stronger. He showed surprising speed for a man of his size and revealed himself to be an accomplished swordsman." It was vital...