Word: duellist
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Clemenceau as been to France what Roosevelt was to America. He has been a physician of prominence, a war-correspondent, a soldier, a teacher in a girl's seminary at Stamford, Connecticut, a duellist, a critic, a playwright and above all a journalist. Like Roosevelt a firm believer in the big stick, he has clubbed his way to the top by the sheer force of his convictions. He roused the enmity of the socialists by the vigor with which he used the military to quell the mining strikes in the Pas de Calais department in 1906. He fired the wrath...