Word: duels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driving rain at Birmingham, Alabama's John Cain and Tennessee's Beattie Feathers had a punting duel. Cain's kicks averaged 48 yards to Feathers' 43. but he made one bad one, behind his own goal line. Tennessee took the ball on the 11-yd. line and Feathers carried it across for Tennessee's touchdown...
...watched the young hotheads race each other into uniform he took a newspaper job. Beautiful Damaris Gordon complicated his situation by appearing to prefer his rival, Captain Holcombe. When his editor cut his Race Week story to tatters, with Damaris avoiding him and Holcombe forcing him into a duel. Peter felt his story was over. But the end was not yet: he quit his job, survived the duel, married Damaris. Action cured him of doubt: by the time Beauregard's guns had opened on Fort Sumter Peter was in uniform too. After two sweet months with Damaris he rode...
...officially suspected of the murders of his common law wife Marion Miller, her two pet dogs, and of John ("Dingbat") O'Berta, Sam Malaga, Spot Butcher, George Meighan, William Dickman, James Quigley, Thaddeus Fancher, Frank Cochrane. Famed was his duel with gunmen in the German Deaconess Hospital while he lay with his leg in a cast...
...Pittsburgh last week, a householder discovered a six-in. garter snake trapped in a spider web. The snake dangled helplessly while the spider skipped up and down his rope, biting at his opponent viciously. After two days the duel ended. The snake was dead. In Burlingame, Calif., a snake and a spider lived together in a bottle at police headquarters without hostility...
...coat." Some of the lions Proust tamed: Prince de Polignac, Count Robert de Montesquiou (chief prototype of Proust's "Baron de Charlus"), Baronne Alphonse de Rothschild, Edmond de Goncourt, Massenet, Saint-Saens, Anatole France, Prince Antoine Bibesco and his cousin Marthe. No coward, Proust fought a duel with a journalist who had reviewed him unfavorably. He was a Dreyfusard when merely to be a Jew in France was dangerous...