Word: duels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...result of a stinging exchange of personal charges through the newspapers, M. Camille Aymard, political director of La Liberté and famed big game hunter, challenged M. Herriot, leader of the Radical bloc in the Chamber of Deputies, to a duel, and sent Ernest Outrey, Deputy for Indo-China, and M. Maspero, ex-Governor of Indo-China, to M. Herriot, as his seconds. They were referred to Deputies Edouard Daladier and Alexandre Varenne, seconds for M. Herriot. The seconds were to meet to decide whether a duel was warranted and, if so, how it was to be fought...
...campaign management. He conducted Taft in 1908 (and was Postmaster General in Taft's Cabinet) ; he conducted Hughes in 1916; and he conducted Leonard Wood on an expensive trip to the Convention in 1920. He is known as a specialist in Southern delegates, and there should be a keen duel between him and C. Bascom Slemp for the delegations from the South? although there will not be so much to quarrel over since the Southern delegations have been cut (TIME, Sept. 24). Not in idle fun was he called an "astute broker of delegates...
...field to a fairly dry spot, while the two teams mopped the mud from their faces. With the exception of Lee's 15 yard run neither team had been able to display its new formations. On account of the rain and mud the game had degenerated into a punting duel...
...Undefeated throughout the season, they beat the Princeton Freshmen two weeks ago by a score of 21-7. And last week, while the Harvard team was being shattered by the Princeton Freshmen the first Yale Freshman team played no game and took a complete rest to prepare for the duel with the Harvard Freshmen on Saturday...
...might have guessed that a soprano was a sorry person to direct an opera company, with its natural animosities between singers; that Miss Garden, with her inspired caprices, least of all was of a temperament for the job. Feuds and scandals immediately broke out. Muratore and Garden conducted a duel that was immense. There had been bad blood of long standing between Garden and Cavalieri, Muratore's wife. The deficit became a sum for awe and admiration. The New York appearance, especially ill-managed, lost heavily. The financial backing was not kept in line. Harold McCormick drew out. Garden grew...