Word: duels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...love-affairs, Diana is rarely the one to suffer; and Author Ludwig has so arranged matters that her willing victims, though never forgetful, always forgive. Between diversions, Diana is the capable secret agent and business adviser of canny Millionaire Scherer. Only once is she the cause of tragedy: a duel in which a former lover kills her present one. No introvert, Diana does not often brood; and when she does, her pessimism is only of the morning after. "To taste of everything just once-in order to be able to despise everything." In Diana, Author Ludwig has tried to give...
...into a window of the palace. He wandered to Paris, London, Moscow, Warsaw, Berlin, Barcelona, always getting in trouble sooner or later over gambling, women, or trickery. In Vienna he was arrested by the Chastity Commissioners; in Paris he ran a state lottery; in Warsaw he fought a duel with Count Branicki; in Rome he was decorated by the Pope; in Switzerland he spent a week with Voltaire; in Berlin he was offered a mastership in a boys' school by Frederick the Great. When he was finally allowed to return to Venice, his money gone and credit dwindling...
...staunchest beliefs, one that he retained to his dying day, that lack of sexual expression is followed by a mortal illness." Though his memoirs are never wholly to be believed, the two adventures of which he was proudest (the escape from the Leads and the duel with Branicki) seem to have been authentic. Author S. Guy Endore bases his account of Casanova on the Memoirs, then takes the wind out of his hero's sails by pointing out, at the end of each chapter, the biggest whoppers. But Author Endore, a good Casanovist, is a sympathetic interpreter. This...
...duel, swords or pistols as they pleased. In declining such a challenge M. de Casagnac, himself no mean swordsman, said: "M. Clemenceau is probably the greatest swordsman in the world. He is also lefthanded, which gives him a tremendous advantage. Then, too, he is a skilled surgeon, who knows just how and where to give the most deadly thrust...
...beach robes are one of the established sights of Deauville. He has been divorced, "for mental cruelty" his reputatation with women is peculiar. He was cited as co-respondent (together with Augustus John, the British painter) in the famed Gough divorce case in London. He once fought a duel over a horse, refused to fight another duel with Jeweler Cartier for a fancied insult. He was sued last year for accidentally peppering a fellow grouse-shooter with birdshot...