Word: duels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indio, Calif., when F. A. Purcell and E. J. Grace decided to duel, their seconds selected overripe tomatoes for three minutes...
...regard to the so-called "duel" at the Los Angeles Junior College [TIME, May 31], you must have been impressed with the fact that no faculty sanction would or could have been given, not to mention my own approval, to any exhibition which could have proved injurious or fatal to the participants. . . . For your elucidation we used regulation combat épées (as approved by the Amateur Fencers League of America) tipped with the regulation points d'arrét (three small points 1/32 in. long) As an additional precaution, we covered these points with adhesive tape...
...Angeles Junior College fencer, I would like to protest the miserable reporting of our "bloody Heidelberg duel." It is not altogether your fault, since all the newspapers in this city carried the erroneous story...
...idea of a duel to the blood originated in the mind of that super-pressagent, Fred Schwankovsky, as a means of advertising the Fencing Club Dance. . . . The rehearsal of the routine was wonderful but both principals had stage fright, when the duel came off. ... It was mediocre fencing and poor acting. There was no "jet of blood." The wound from an epee is usually a superficial cut that takes a few seconds to stop bleeding. This was no exception. I have seen more excitement and more blood in a spontaneous duel, coming off during the class period. . . . FRANK DITURI...
...Facing each other on the grass stood sturdy, curly-headed Student Robert Cousineau and wiry Student Harold Bauer, each stripped to the waist and each armed with a sword. As the excited audience chattered and peered, cameramen recorded the scene and newshawks watched intently. With full faculty approval, a duel was about to be fought. When Students Cousineau and Bauer finished posing, they put on fencing masks, but left the tips of their weapons exposed. Captain Fred Schwankovsky of the college fencing team, stepping up to referee, grimly explained that they would use not fencing foils but regulation French...