Word: duels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capt. Tony McGowan, Henry Thompson, Jack Barr, Bobby Graves, and Ace Cordingley won singles matches for the Crimson, while Bob Sides lost a close duel to Brown's Ed Christie...
...most exciting races of the afternoon was a half mile duel between Al Hanlon '39 and Rollo Campbell '41. Though Joe Donnelly '40 won the race with a fifty yard handicap to his benefit Hanlon and Campbell were the focal point when they ran abreast down the back stretch, Hanlon in the last few yards edging out Campbell. Hanlon's time was 1 minute, 57.3 seconds...
Meanwhile, the Premier engaged in a personal duel of words with the president of the Senate Finance Committee, Joseph Caillaux. Blum was trying to get authorization to borrow another $270,000.000 from the Bank of France to keep the country going for three and a half months, but the Senate thought that was giving the Premier too much rope, hauled him down to $150,000,000 hoping he would resign in a huff, but instead the Premier took what he could get. "Watch out," angry Blum told irate Caillaux, "lest in manifesting prejudice against our Government and distrust...
...used every maneuver known to aviation," reported Duelist Dickinson. "Although I am disgusted with many of the criminal acts of the Fascist Governments, I want to salute young Mussolini. He is not only a gentleman but a very good fighter." The duel lasted as long as the aviators' ammunition held out (22 minutes) and afterward, unscathed Duelist Dickinson & friends counted 326 bullet holes in his plane. He received word that Duelist Mussolini had sustained a flesh wound...
...give Gone With the Wind its real start. When Pres goes, Julie is confident he will come back. A year later he does return, with a Northern bride (Margaret Lindsay). With every vixenish wile she can think of, Julie tries to satisfy her longing and her hate. When a duel born of her scheming results in Buck Cantrell's death, even her motherly aunt (Fay Bainter) calls Julie a Jezebel...