Word: foils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three weapon fencing tournament open to all members of the University will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock in the quadrangle between Smith and Standish Halls. Each man will use foil epee and sabre...
Each man will be required to use three weapons, the foil, epee, and sabre. The winner of two weapons is accorded the match. Scheduled to start at 2 o'clock, this tournament, is open to all members of the University, and prizes will be given for first and second places. Men thinking of entering the lists are asked to sign up at Hemenway gymnasium as soon as possible...
...close together and easily crossed, who emits apelike noises and resorts to other equally obvious antics. His most successful gag is a vulgar parody of a procedure common to all medical examinations. A great many people find him very funny. His function in the plot is to act as foil for a fat girl who wants to marry him. The fat girl, who looks as though she could barely waddle, does what fat girls must do to stay on the stage-springs a surprise, in this case a tap dance extremely agile (for a fat girl...
Like navigation, electrodynamics, foil fencing is an exact science. Its only drawback is the necessity for sharp-eyed judges crouching on the sidelines to shout "touche" every time a fencer's sword point touches the plastron of his adversary...
...device, dubbed by frivolous reporters "Massard's Stab Register," consists of a pair of electrified foils and a pair of electrified plastrons (chest protectors), the whole connected by delicate thread-like wires. In place of the rubber tip on an ordinary foil, is a small metallic ball and spring. Wires run up the fencer's sleeves and out through an opening in the back of his coat, trail out behind him on the mat. When the positive tip of one foil strikes the negatively charged plastron of an adversary, a gong rings, and a touch is marked...