Word: duels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nicolo Tomaso Jean Maria, Prince of Piedmont, General of the 25th infantry brigade and father of an infant on the verge of birth. A few years ago Crown Prince Umberto used to be the last hope of antiFascists who tried to believe that he once challenged Mussolini to a duel. Last week H. R. H. cooled his heels in respectful silence while Il Duce opened the discussion. Though the session was secret, leaks indicated that the Dictator, who had never before summoned all the King's generals, wanted to know if they had any objection to still further reducing...
Most distasteful to Italy's Cupid was a grave irregularity last week at Avellino. Rosino Consolazio, 19, agreed with her fiance Montalberti Filcorate, 23, to end their engagement in a duel. On the field of honor she shot him through the head, received a flesh wound in the cheek...
...best place. Furious, Artist Wilson tore down the cow picture, hung up his own. Hour later the cow picture was back. Portraitist Wilson, with canvas, rushed away, opened a competing one-man one-picture show in an empty 18-room house, challenged Cow Painter Newell to a duel with canvas and brush, promised a $100,000 suit...
...spider watched and waited. On the third day came more neighbors, newshawks, cameramen. The contest was making national news. The snake, called Egbert by his backers, grew weak, stopped writhing. On the fourth day the snake recovered its strength, sought once more to free itself. How long the duel might have gone on no one could say, for that night an agent from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals went into the cellar, snipped off Egbert's head with a pair of dull scissors...
...play the desperate role of Economic Tsar but to equip Germany with an ordered "Corporative State." Chancellor Hitler, who despises armchair economists, took a keen personal liking to dynamic Dr. Schmitt as a "frontline war fighter." (His nose, however, was not cleft in battle but in a student duel.) Not an original Nazi, Dr. Schmitt entered the Cabinet with a reputation as Germany's No. 1 insurance tycoon, a man of rugged integrity whose energy and calm enabled the Frankfurter Insurance Co. to be reorganized in 1930 without great loss to policy holders...