Word: foils
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...Miss Marion Lloyd, Manhattan fencer, so tired she could hardly hold her foil: the women's U. S. senior foils championship in a triple-fence-off with Mrs. Leon Schoonmaker and Miss Dorothy Locke...
President Butler also quoted himself as saying, in the same setting twenty-four years ago, that a democracy must provide itself with a foil of its own--an effective aristocracy of intellect and service. California, with its State university (enjoying also large private endowments), its Stanford University and its institutions of superb technical and scientific equipment, is best served and is best able to serve the nation by maintaining these at topmost intellectual efficiency rather than by dissipating its funds in evoking sham universities out of junior colleges. California cannot hold her place in the educational van if she ceases...
Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York, two inspectors of police, several sergeants, 30 uniformed constables and unnumbered plain clothes men met Spain's King Alfonso XIII in Victoria Station, warmly welcomed him to England. To foil any would-be bombers, Alfonso's coach had been secretly detached from "The Golden Arrow," speedy coast-to-London express, at Ashford, Kent, and arrived eight minutes later at a different, securely barricaded platform...
...funny it would take its place along with the Seven Wonders of the world. There is scarcely an ingredient necessary for "slap-stick" that has not been included in its bundle of tricks. To begin with there is the incomparable Marie Dressler in Perfect form, and here less gifted foil, Polly Moran. Add to these a husband mild to the point of meekness, a brace of typical screen brats, all the esoteric paraphernalia of a beauty shop, a sub-plot that furnishes the inevitable love interest and it may be seen that the picture could hardly mis-fire...
Unimpressed, the Court sentenced Alchemist Tausend to three years and eight months in jail. The Court expressed the opinion that, in his most convincing demonstrations, Tausend had concealed gold foil in a cigaret, flicked the ashes into his crucible...