Word: duels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charmed life of a tomcat. At the turn of the century Georges ("Tiger") Clemenceau picked young Tomcat Sarraut as a likely scrapping partner in the bitter Dreyfus affair. As Clemenceau's Under- secretary of Interior, M. Sarraut was challenged by a certain Deputy Pugliesi-Conti to duel over the rehabilitation of Jew Dreyfus. He accepted "on condition that it is to the death." Tomcat Sarraut's seconds thought he was dead when they carried him off the field run completely through the body by his opponent's dueling rapier, but he had lost only his first life...
Aside from this the match was slow, consisting of a punting duel between Bilodeau and Exeter's Kagain. The prep-school suffered a serious loss in the first period when Captain Hamelin Turner left the game with a pulled cartilege in his left knee...
After the kick-off, Dean immediately carried the ball-down to the goal line, but lost it there on an incomplete pass. Harvard kicked to midfield, and the quarter ended there in a duel of punts...
...American Airways, frightened Cuban Secretary of State Orestes Ferrara & wife were fired at by mobsters who put several bullets into the plane but did no serious damage. On landing at Miami, Dr. Ferrara was jeered by members of the local Cuban revolutionary Junta one of whom challenged him to duel. Having fought eleven duels, Dr. Ferrara was about to accept when a U. S. policeman intervened...
...Berlin sword-handy Ludwig Diels, Chief of the Prussia Police who now have 12,000 Germans behind barbed wire, said last week that he has accepted from prominent prisoners eleven challenges to rapier duels, six to sabre duels and one to a pistol duel "unto death." The pistol challenger is Prisoner Max von Prittwitz, a relative of Germany's onetime Ambassador to the U. S. Baron Friedrich von Prittwitz und Gaffron. "I think it is amusing for a police chief to accept challenges from men he is forced to arrest." chuckled Chief Diels. "I love to fight. There...