Word: duello
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investors of their mete of profits. Their decision (it went into effect Dec. 1) was the first made under the Watson-Parker Railroad Act, and, although obedience by employers and workers is optional, they have set a precedent for labor arguments. This Act, passed last year, provides a code duello for railroaders, every nicety of which the factors of this case followed meticulously. Thus a year ago, the conductors and trainmen notified their employers that they wanted a 19% increase in pay-$38,000,000. "But no! we can't afford it," replied employers. "Let us send our seconds...
...like his Henry IV) who are not what they seem. Early in the week Signor Pirandello had received a visit from two friends with a mutual grievance: Playwright Massimo Bontempelli and Author Giuseppe Ungaretti, both Italians of note. They desired to adjust a minor point of honor by the duello. But a Fascist decree forbade. What should they do? Philosopher-dramatist Pirandello cogitated, frowned, beamed at last upon his honorably quarrelsome friends, invited them to a garden party, suggested that they bring swords. . . . At the garden party last week, Signor Pirandello announced that to divert his guests he would direct...
...thick wrists tinkled with a perpetual arpeggio of fine gold bangles, read the effusion with rapidly mounting fury. Then he (Rudolph Valentino) wrote out and mailed to the Chicago Tribune editor a formal note. He said that he infinitely regretted that American statutes made illegal the honorable and historic duello. But he felt happy to be able to offer his correspondent the choice of boxing ring or wrestling mat to "prove in typically American fashion...
...Blue Bird, and whose greatest work is The Life of the Bee. The poet took a trip through Sicily a short time ago and then wrote about it. Avvocato Rondi read Maeterlinck's opinion of Rondi's home town. Result: Rondi challenged the poet to a duello...
Father Giovanni Vanninetti, editor of a Sondrio journal, wrote some humorous comments upon the War-decorations of the local Fascist candidate. Belisario Cantagalli, a Fascist secretary, challenged him to a duello. General Ricciotti Garibaldi, last surviving son of the great patriot, was reported very ill, was not expected to recover. His wife and daughters remain by him day and night, but his sons are abroad, one in Mexico, one in China...