Word: foils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Showing surprising strength in the foil and sabre divisions, the Crimson fencing team outpointed Columbia's swordsmen 18 to 9 at the Indoor Athletic Building Saturday afternoon...
...Andover Saturday in the fencing rooms of the Indoor Athletic Building. Harvard's Otto Brosius sparked the 7-2 triumph, winning all three of his matches. Andover came back strongly in the epee, taking six of the nine bouts, but the Jayvees clinched the match with a 5-4 foil victory...
...Owen (a Nazi Intelligence officer posing as a British Intelligence officer), Edward Ciannelli (an Oriental mastermind) and Jeanette MacDonald engage in a game of deliberately slapstick I Spy. Climax comes when the sympathetic vibrations of Singer MacDonald's high C tickle open a secret door into a pyramid, foil a Nazi plot to bomb a U.S. transport by remote control...
Herbert Marshall's Bond Street voice and general air of bemused gentility make a perfect foil for George Sanders' playing of the brutal genius. One of the few cinemactors with any real presence, Sanders has for years been using it to put starch into supporting parts and B pictures. The Moon & Sixpence gives him his first big chance. It also puts his fine performance in a vacuum...
...Elson's teammate in broadcasting the Series ever since 1936. A wavy-haired, wise and wide-awake guy from Mississippi, he is the "Verce of Brooklyn" by virtue of having been official announcer at the Dodgers' baseball games since 1939. Fond of statistics, he made an excellent foil for Elson, since his chatty, easygoing Southern voice was practically impervious to excitement. Acutely aware of his personality, he refers to himself at regular intervals in a fatherly way as "the old redhead." His reported yearly earnings: above...