Word: foils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pick his self-assured way through the mazes of melodrama in fancy dress as no one else in Hollywood, doubles as Rudolf, uncrowned King of Strelsau, and his English cousin Rassendyll. Rudolf and Rassendyll, just to help out the plot, are dead ringers for each other. To foil a treasonous conspiracy led by Black Michael (Raymond Massey), Rassendyll impersonates his cousin, lets himself be crowned. He wishes more than ever that he hadn't when he meets Rudolf's fiancee, Princess Flavia (Madeleine Carroll). She falls in love with him quite legally, but he feels like...
Whether for such extravagant reasons as this one, from The Odd Fellows' Text-Book and Manual of 1876, or merely to foil their loneliness and feed their egos, men since the dawn of history have banded together in secret societies. Modern Free-Masons believe their order "coeval with the creation of the world by the Almighty." Plato recorded the scandalous revels of secret orders in ancient Greece. Africa has its Egbo, eastern Australia its hoary lodges where the initiation begins by knocking out the candidate's front teeth. Nowhere have secret societies flourished more luxuriantly than...
...loyal Soviet citizens, Pravda gave a lesson in how to foil spies...
...apparently preposterous notion that he is the King of England, sets out, when the boy is kidnapped, to rescue him from John Canty's gang of thieves. When the rescue entails fighting off the palace guards, sent to kill the young King before he can return to foil the Hertford,plot, Hendon begins to think his young protege's ideas of his own grandeur may not be delusions after all, hurries him back to London...
...Foil matches take place today at 2 o'clock, with the events in the epee and the saber tomorrow and Friday at the same time. This year's tournament differs from these of other years in that the round-robin method has been replaced by elimination matches...