Word: swordsman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Hoover, who rarely quotes his elders, last week went back a century to borrow an oratorical sword with which to stand off the American Legion on the Soldier Bonus. The weapon had been fashioned by Daniel Webster, mighty verbal swordsman, at a Whig reception at Niblo's Garden, Manhattan, in 1837. Unearthed by French Strother, White House research secretary, it was still so pat and pointed that President Hoover grasped its hilt and made it flash and glitter in a statement explaining why the U. S. could neither tax nor borrow two billions out of its people...
...potent swordsman is Architect William Hamilton Russell. When not designing country houses for tycoons in Newport, Islip and Wheatley Hills, he represents the U. S. on international fencing teams. He was U. S. champion in 1916, 1919, 1923. He was on the Olympic Team at Antwerp in 1920 and Paris in 1924. Last week he exhibited a whole case full of medals and a gold-plated rapier from his admirers in the Fencers' Club...
...sabre bouts also will feature only one swordsman outside of the University team, J. F. Varian 3L. J. G. Hurd '34, R. B. Lawson '32, and H. P. Walker '33 are the other sabre artists in this class, and it seems that it will be a case of a close fight between Lawson and Walker, although Steele, who is an unknown quantity, may show his mettle when placed against worthy opposition. Lawson placed second in the sabre in the Intercollegiate Individual Fencing Championships in New York on Monday...
...Literally. Minister Maginot is not only a super-patriot but an expert swordsman...
...victor in the sabre bouts was L.C. Winter '31, who won from J.F. Varian 1L, a former Eli swordsman, 5-0, and from R.B. Lawson...