Word: duello
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buckets of blood from the veins of the editor of Mississippi's greatest newspaper will quench your thirst for human gore . . . you are cordially invited to come on and spill it if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor, under the traditional rules of the code duello, is entitled to choice of weapons, jpbj may arm himself with cow dung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face to the wind. . . ." The "jpbj" was, as all Mississippians knew, Judge Paul B. Johnson (later Governor), Sullens' bitterest political foe. In May 1940 Johnson...
...director of the duel, Army Fencing Master Colonel Aniceto Rodrigues, punctiliously following the Code Duello, in vited the two principals to a reconciliation. Both refused. The director stepped back from the line of combat, clapped his hands...