Word: duels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pitched in two World Series before but never won a game, the Tigers took the fourth game, 2-to-1, on Chicago errors, gamblers made them a 6-to-1 favorite. Needing three games in a row to win, the Cubs took the fifth, like the first a pitching duel between Warneke and Detroit's famed Arkansan, Schoolboy Rowe, 3-to-1, mainly on the strength of a homerun by their Right Fielder Chuck Klein, and the teams moved back to Detroit to end their business...
First official duel already scheduled is on the evening of Saturday, November 9, when a team from the Maritime Provinces will be the guest of the College. This team will be composed of one man from the University of New Brunswick and one from Dalhousic University...
Before Artist Rivera could pull the trigger, bystanders intervened. But honor had been impugned and a duel was in order. Half an hour's furious talk on the part of the authorities convinced both principals that the duel should be one of words, to be held in the same place the following night...
News of the verbal duel last week found some 500 inflamed intellectuals the next night storming the doors for a chance to hear it. For fear of rioting, gates of the Palace of Fine Arts were at first locked. Angry crowds threatened to tear them down. Conferences ensued between police, the Ministry of Education and the principals. The gates were opened, and in swept a breathless and perspiring crowd to hear the two duelists fight over "What Constitutes Revolutionary...
...Buenos Aires shooting was not over. Minister of Agriculture Luis Duhau and Minister of Finance Frederico Pinedo temporarily resigned their Cabinet posts for the purpose of challenging their accuser, 70-year-old Senator Lisandro de la Torre, to duel. The greybeard, a great rapier expert in his youth, promptly agreed to fight the Minister of Finance who had challenged first and, having the choice of weapons, picked pistols. Over 100 Argentineans, mostly prominent, watched. Hoary Senator de la Torre, his grey beard whipped by the winter breeze, drew himself up and fired into the air. Minister of Finance Pinedo, after...