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Word: markof (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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They have come to watch a duel. The participants: challenger Maria ("Masha") Magdalena Markof-Belaeff [origine russe], who undoes her red cravate before the action commences; and instigator Mark Van Dyke Holmes, sporting sneakers, vest, and blazer in Eleanor (Roosevelt) blue...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: The Dawn Duel: Blueberries At Ten Paces | 5/11/1979 | See Source »

Given her Russian origin, and the fact that two of her roommates are Orientals, Miss Markof-Belaeff could not in good conscience countenance these remarks. Hence she challenged Mr. Holmes to a duel last winter, to be held in May as a kind of rite of spring...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: The Dawn Duel: Blueberries At Ten Paces | 5/11/1979 | See Source »

...Miss Markof-Belaeff put it, "Mark Holmes is a creep and I'd have had him caned, but my servants were busy...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: The Dawn Duel: Blueberries At Ten Paces | 5/11/1979 | See Source »

Round one--the pies simply graze the ankles of the two participants. The crowd groans in obvious dismay. The second about is more satisfying, with pies be-purpling the chemises of both Miss Markof-Belaeff and Mr. Holmes. However, round three takes the cake (so to speak), when both participants approach within a foot of each other and boldly smush a pie in the other's face...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: The Dawn Duel: Blueberries At Ten Paces | 5/11/1979 | See Source »

...Miss Markof-Belaeff admitted that she, too, had had no previous pie-throwing experience. She trained for the event by hurling an open paperback against the wall of her room...

Author: By Mary G. Gotschall, | Title: The Dawn Duel: Blueberries At Ten Paces | 5/11/1979 | See Source »

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