Word: duels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...college football games as barbaric, the initiations of U. S. college fraternities as infantile. Last week, through the enterprise of press photographers, the U. S. was given an intimate contemporary view of a European college activity seldom viewed by outsiders-the Schläger mensur or "sport duel," as still practiced secretly with sharp sabres at the foremost universities of Germany...
...Universities of Berlin and Heidelberg especially, dueling is preserved by the students in defiance of national law, in the belief that it teaches self-control and physical courage. The "sport duel" is fought "not on any point of personal honor but as a test of endurance of bloodletting." The leaders of the undergraduate "corporations" tell off the representatives who are to meet. At Heidelberg, each member of the most select of the 44 corporations must fight ten duels during his three-year residence...
...thrust with the point, is permitted. After eight slashes and parries, the seconds seize the sword arms, doctors examine the damage. Unless one contestant is unable to stand up, the affray continues until one faints from loss of blood or has suffered sufficient disfigurement to make the duel satisfactory...
...mirror with a mistress Americans would describe as a "yella girl." From then until his death the poet carried on a long and weary struggle with debt, disease, wine, opium, and impotence. Through it all he kept up his unending search for the "Ideal Beauty". His life was a duel between Catholicism and Paganism, between flesh and the spirit. He died a failure, yet his poetry lives today as some of the most beautiful that the French nation has produced...
...drunk and plunged into the arms of another man, also drunk. Ben Lyon, as the timid brother, acted best. Discounting its less efficient elements the picture still stands as an astounding achievement. The air sequences will draw gasps from the most stolid patron. In the early reels a duel (German) is most adroitly handled. Scenes on board a Zeppelin raiding London are tense with grim reality. The destruction of this Zeppelin has rarely been rivalled in the whole history of motion picture thrills. Best shot: the Zeppelin nosing through night clouds over London. Not the least talk-provoking thing about...