Word: jousted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Ahmed Zogu, who recently began to joust with the Bishop Premier and Harvard Graduate Fan Stylian Noli, in an effort to oust him (TIME, Dec. 22), won the tournament. Premier Noli, with his cabinet, general staff and "a lot of money," fled the country last week into Italy and was Premier no more. He charged that Yugo-Slavia had aided Zogu...
...June, Bishop Fan Stylian Noli, Harvard graduate, ousted Premier Ahmed Zogu from the government of Albania. Ahmed, it was feared, was getting too efficient. Peace reigned until the other day, when Ahmed began to joust with the Premier-Bishop to see if he was to remain ousted or could oust the man who ousted...
...report continued to have it that the joust over the oust was a fact...
...King of England and the King of France are fighting again." They are figures in an ancient clock-tower at Calais, who emerge each day at noon and joust with lances. Early in the War the mechanism was damaged by a German shell. The Kings said to one another: Pax vobiscum; the Calaisiens exclaimed: Miracle! Now a clockmaker has repaired the mechanism and the two Allies are once more fighting, whereat the Calaisiens say cynically, with an expressive French shrug of the shoulders: C'est la fin de I'alliance...
Again Coach Knox's black knights charged into the Stadium yesterday afternoon to joust with the first University football team. The seconds struggled hard to avenge themselves for the 14-0 defeat received in Monday's scrimmage, but although they managed to drop kick once over the University goal post, the first team atoned amply with three touchdowns and two goals from the field...