Word: swordsman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...washing machines: he makes them feel ten feet tall. His sometime pals, a French playboy and a White Russian con man, are not far behind in their technique: one of them receives a gold cigarette case from a female admirer inscribed delicately: 'To the world's greatest swordsman from his most grateful scabbard...
...hardest blow to believe came in Tom Musliner's first match, when the Crimson swordsman's foil broke against the second-ranked Violet fencer. Given an unfamiliar sword to continue with, Musliner went on to lose the match, but came back later to beat the first and third-ranked New Yorkers...
...Crimson swordsman sprained his ankle in this weekend's Intercollegiate Fencing Association's matches at Navy and the rest of the team fenced as if they were incapacitated...
...also has a sizable reputation as an amateur swordsman: last year he leaped into a box at the Naples San Carlo Opera House during a performance of Il Trovatore to attack a heckling spectator. Two years earlier, at the Rome Opera, he crossed swords with Basso Boris Christoff, who, he claimed, was upstaging him, wounded Christoff in the finger and was slapped with a damage suit...
...Calhoun Colleges gave a very entertaining, if not varsity-like, football performance this morning on the wide green between the Colleges. Not content with the orthodox football uniforms, these players adorned themselves in bright pajamas, bermuda shorts, sweat pants, stocking hats. At half-time a band, led by a swordsman paraded out for a small show. No one much cared but the score at the half...