Word: massard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...performance in a role which gained much of its power from faithfulness to historical fact, were last week pleased that the film was being exhibited again with satisfactory sound accompaniment. The questions & answers of the trial are rendered by Radio Announcer David Ross, a musical score by Massard Kurzhene...
Contrary to popular legend, Frenchmen are not emotional, like Germans, but the most rational race in the world. In a Parisian salle d'armes last week one Dr. Armand Massard, inventive swordsman, President of the Parisian Federation of Fencing, exhibited a device to rationalize duelling. Frenchmen applauded...
Whether a fence has actually been touched or not is always the source of innumerable acrimonious disputes, disputes which Swordsman President Massard aimed to do away with...
...device, dubbed by frivolous reporters "Massard's Stab Register," consists of a pair of electrified foils and a pair of electrified plastrons (chest protectors), the whole connected by delicate thread-like wires. In place of the rubber tip on an ordinary foil, is a small metallic ball and spring. Wires run up the fencer's sleeves and out through an opening in the back of his coat, trail out behind him on the mat. When the positive tip of one foil strikes the negatively charged plastron of an adversary, a gong rings, and a touch is marked...