Word: joustings
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...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...
...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...
...played the Juniors on Tuesday, but after the second-year men had taken one look at the lowering skies they decided that the movies would hold more attraction for them than a sudden diamond on Soldiers Field. As a result, Manager R. G. Potter '22 appeared for the appointed joust against the Juniors, minus a team...
...struggle until after they meet again. These men, after hours of manoeuvring for positions, will move their planes to signify calling off the duel until some other time and both sides, with the honor of good sportsmen, accept the signal. This takes us back to the age of joust and tourney, to a time when death in battle was no less horrible than it is now, but when the battle itself seemed man's and not the devil's mode of fighting...