Word: duels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 a scene from a motion picture now in production, a duel scene. While two cameras ground, and unwitting female guests idly twirled parasols, Massimo Bontempelli "laid on" with Giuseppe Ungaretti, pinked him at last in the right arm, walked victorious from the undeadly field of honor...
Contrasts. The foreign policies of Poincaré and Briand are, re- spectively, as flaming war-oil and quenching peace-water. Briand has just fought and been defeated by Herriot in a political death grapple which Briand described on the floor of the Chamber as a "per- sonal duel." MM. Briand, Herriot, Painlevé and Sarraut are of the Left; MM. Poincaré, Tardieu and Bokanowski are of the Right...
Finally Premier Briand called a spade a shovel: "M. Herriot, listen to me. I do not know what will be the outcome of this duel between...
...Herriot: "It is not a duel! I will shake your hand...
...Briand: "'We must have the courage to call things by their names. There is a duel between the president of the Chamber and the president of the Council (Premier). That there should be such a duel at this moment is tragic beyond words...