Word: foils
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...winning names, their secret was their own. Going to the Government bureaus to collect their prize money, many winners loitered for a time with the crowd pretending to wait for news, finally eased in through the door. When they emerged, they covered their faces with their hands to foil photographers, raced panic-stricken for cover. When 16 Frenchmen became franc millionaires (1,000,000 francs = $64,600), most of them stayed anonymous...
Twenty-five wielders of the saber, foil, and epee were addressed by Captain John Gains Hurd '34 and Coach Rene Peroy at an organization meeting of the Varsity and Jayvee fencing teams held recently in the fencing room of the Indoor Athletic Building...
Other promising fencers attending were Richard Morgan, 4th, '36, Joseph A. Weber '35, Morton Grant '36, and Roward B. Reynolds '36 in the saber; Bruce H. Billings '36, Manley B. Cohen '36, and John B. Hickam '36 in the foil; Richard Ford '36, and Sheldon Smolian '36 in the epee. Morgan, Grant, and Hickam all fenced on the 1933 Freshman team...
...invention is simple in appearance. An ordinary foil is attached by four stiff springs to a small, round, piece of metal which is adjustable. In this way the foil can be raised or lowered at will, while the springs cause it to vibrate, thus imitating the wrist movement of an opponent. The whole mechanism is set upon a padded mat, and attached to the wall about shoulder height...
...predecessors, this one starts off with George Dwight (Roger Pryor) frantically trying to put together a musi-comedy which displays a constant tendency to fall apart. Rival producers (the "Hobarts") try to buy the controlling interest. The leading lady (Lilian Miles) persuades a gambler friend (Leo Carillo) to foil the Hobarts by buying a piece of the show himself. He promptly loses it in a crap game and Sport Powell (Herbert Rawlinson), who wins it, unnerves Dwight by trying to make a pretty chorus girl (Mary Brian) the leading lady. A tiny vein of originality can be detected...