Word: foeman
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...Douglas, a Douglas!" sputtered stout-hearted Douglo, and rose to vanquish his foeman...
...better-known Savoy Operas, the Civic Light Opera Company has learned to be lusty in choruses, whimsical in patter-songs, and sentimental in arias. They can shake the deck of the good ship "Pinafore," snapping their fingers at a foeman's taunts, along with their sisters and their cousins and their aunts. Or, transformed into Pirates, they can sally forth to seek their prey and help themselves in a royal way. But as Gondolieri, whose life is "loving and laughing and quipping and quaffing," they miss the right note of delicate gayety. They sing "Buon' giorno, signorine!" like the police...
...national style of fighting; it includes blows as well as grips and it was perfected, as might be imagined, by a huge band of Hoodlums who once terrorized Rio de Janeiro. Even kicks in the head are allowed and the Bahia Negro attempted these, without avail, against his little foeman...
Speeding off to Milwaukee, Candidate Reed assailed Candidate Hoover for Wartime wheat-price fixing. "That distinguished expatriate," he called his party's foeman...
...base, we should still say : "Our victorious athletes left last night to wipe up Harvard, on her own grounds, this afternoon. There will be need of a crowd to spur them on, the Yale nine will not be allowed more than six runs apiece, and we long for a foeman worthy our steel." etc. There's nothing like "hoping for the best" and scattering it all around for the benefit of the disheartened. - [Yale Courant...