Word: foils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plot involves a cruel scientist who is inspired to keep a human brain alive after he has watched a chicken heart artificially sustained. The victim is a young poet of a particularly kindly nature, who acts as a psychological foil to the scientist...
...businessmen slap their thighs. Canny Winston Churchill, having already picked Viscount Halifax as Ambassador to the U. S., last week plucked ebullient Sir Gerald from Ottawa, where he has lately been serving as High Commissioner* for the Mother Country, and assigned him to Washington-obviously as the perfect foil to austere, pallid, pious Lord Halifax...
...France he was something of a boy wonder. Before the age of twenty he had swept the amateur ranks to emerge as foil champion. Then for two years he taught the French army artillery officers how a gentleman should handle any or all of the three weapons. In 1909 he came to the United States, but he did no fencing until 1922, when he joined the New York Fencing Club. In that one year he achieved the unprecedented feat of rising from novice, to junior, to senior champion. The climax came in 1928, when he successfully defended the United States...
...best fencer he ever fought, he will tell you, was Joe Levis, 1937 American amateur foil champion. And thereby hangs a tale, for that match was one of Peroy's last exhibition appearances. It was a sports announcer's dream of youth versus age and cunning, and true to the best Hollywood form, the old war horse won a smashing victory. His last touch was an artist's farewell, an inimitable stroke, a daring lunge so fast that it was never parried...
...with either Ted McNitt or Dave Stearns as his partner. Tom Godfrey and Tom Shrewsbury are the other ranking sprint men. Bob White, Roger Wilcox, and Max Kraus are having a three-cornered fight for the two breastroke the grade and if Senior star Art Bosworth returns to the foil, the Ulenmen will have a strong duel meet squad...