Word: duels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Continued tranquil, utterly unstirred by tidings that the Sixth Earl Winterton had just been slapped in the face in the House of Commons by crippled Laborite Charles James Simmons and later challenged to duel...
...provoked this enthusiastic supporter of Mr. Snowden by any allusion to the Chancellor of the Exchequer as 'an insulting dog.' I cannot recollect ever using such a term in relation to a human.* It is quite true that I have since been challenged to a duel, but I decline to say by whom...
...chiefly for the expert clowning of Stuart Erwin and some clever detail, such as Waiter Chevalier's constant desire to wear his dress-up, braided waiter's coat instead of his everyday one?an impulse contested by his employer because of the cost of dry-cleaning. Best shot: a duel, in which the chef and bus boy of the cafe act as Chevalier's seconds...
...Duel...
...felt in Hanover that at the start the contest may develop into a kicking duel, and the team using this strategy to advantage will have a good chance to score. Morton, who made some long punts against the Lions will probably do the kicking for Dartmouth...