Word: duels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holiness' influence had flung into the scale of Fascismo at least 1,000,000 extra votes. A sadder if not wiser voter was Crown Prince Umberto of Savoy. There is every reason to believe the stories that H. R. H. detests Commoner Mussolini and once challenged him to duel over what he deemed a point of honor to the Royal House. The disgruntled Prince, recently promoted to the rank of Colonel and stationed in Turin, balloted morosely in company with his brother officers. Of the 9,650,570 males qualified to vote (females having no franchise), 8,506,576 voted...
...starring role and Walter Hampden is playing "Cyrano" once more up-town at his Sixty-second Street Theatre. Margaret Anglin does valiant work in making a drama of tragic married life, "Security" convincing and next week Ethel Barry-more will come to her theatre in "The Love Duel", highly praised in its out-of-town engagements. Meanwhile Mrs. Fiske has just opened a revival of that comedy of social climbing in the Third Empire, "Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh...
Below stairs in the dignified stone mansion of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, a group of Paris reporters completed, last week, their second month of fidgeting and fuming. The first month was the hardest. It climaxed in a duel between M. Georges Chapreau and M. le Marquis Henri de Sombrieul, both star reporters, who had rasped each other's nerves. However, since le Marquis fired into the ground, and M. Chapreau into the air-as Frenchmen will -the shots served happily to steady the nerves of all concerned. Last week the corps of reporters five was informed by the corps...
...husband. For several years they stuck it out, till cumulative suspicion and repression hurled Justine into the arms of a lover, and Gale to the distractions of Spain. The lover proved less satisfying than the bull-fight-not the conventional scarlet-cloaked trickery, but a duel during which Gale rode bareback, crashing down gorges, wallowing through torrents, staggering up embankments, till finally he brought the bull to its knees...
...this fashion, last fortnight, did Nicholas B. Jones. 87, Civil War veteran of Enid, Okla.. describe a Lincoln-Shields duel near Springfield, Ill. He said it took place in 1861, when Shields, later Civil War general and Senator from Illinois and Missouri, was state auditor. Letters deriding him appeared in the Springfield Journal. He accused Lincoln, who refused to retract. According to the accepted ver sion of the Lincoln-Shields affair, broadswords were chosen and a site on the Missouri shore some 50 miles away. But friends interceded, prevented the duel...