Word: foils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entries from the Club for this afternoon's contest are Dow, Devine and Adams. Dow and Devine will handle both the foil and the epee while Adams is third on the foils lineup...
...between Sunday and Sunday about every lecturer faces an audience three successive times and in fifty three minutes condemns them to dullness or leads them to light. To call him an actor is perhaps to flatter, perhaps to foil. Yet after all, higher learning is amusement--or it is dead. So the lecturer and the vaudeville artist have something in common, more than either would willingly grant...
When questioned as, to the meet, Coach J. L. Danguy of the University Fencing Team explained that Shearn started his career as a foilsman in the Hemenway Gymnasium when a Freshman. He was a member of two winning University Teams and finally dropped the foil for the epee. His exceptionally skillful work in the recent New York meet makes it appear likely that he will become one of the several championship fencers produced by the University...
...clock this afternoon Mr. Danguy will hold in the Salle d'Armes in Hemenway Gymnasium a competition for all Freshmen who desire to try out for the team. About twelve men will probably be selected this afternoon and they will be formed into three preliminary teams for foils, epees, and sabres. The 1929 man who shows the best form will be awarded a foil this afternoon...
...pair of autumn leaves, they folded across his breast. Upon his head they set the royal golden diadem, the eager vulture (Nekhebet), the playful serpent (Buto). From his neck they suspended amuletic idols. Pectorals of elaborate cloisonne they strewed upon his breast. A star beaten out of golden foil marked the place where his heart had been. Thirteen finger-rings, all different, they slipped upon his brittle digits. With eleven bracelets they circled his arms. They covered his waist with two girdles, from each of which hung a dagger, zestfully ornamented. They put the royal apron, inlaid with gold, around...