Word: thrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With General Messing, ex-Minister of War, as umpire, Professor Bernard Cuneo, a surgeon, and Dr. Elie Broca, a physician, "lunged, thrust and parried for a good half-hour." Finally the surgeon, who ought to have known better, let himself be punctured by the physician. The duel was over...
...office", in which he points out some of the more or less unsuspected points of contact between administrator and undergraduate, and pleads wisely for a sense of humor and more truly representative expressions of the opinion of "the student body." This sanity, too, is reflected in the editorials that thrust neatly, though somewhat smugly, at the prevailing critical attitude toward the University...
Whether due to the ineptitude of the Wilson administration or to the reactionary conservatism of part of the opposition. America soon after the war crawled into her shell, drew in her horns after her, and has remained there ever since. All talk of the war has been thrust resolutely out of the window, and the door shut and battened against Europe by the adroit use of the Monroe Doctrine. Although this document was first promulgated only with reference to South America, it has stood the present government authorities in good stead on many occasions during the past...
Indeed, there is very little to say against such a debate. What more fitting place for man and woman to match wits than upon the debating platform, with the thrust and parries of tea-table fencing to set a precedent? Of course the judges would be untrustworthy, but few judges even now make a pretence at following the case, and their decision falls to the better team very often by chance. Even the inherited reluctance of man to meet woman in competition seems based not so much on a feeling of superiority as upon a deadly fear for the results...
...screen, and the audience has contented itself with a passively vicarious thrill. Recently, even, melodrama has slopped over on to the stage producing several bundred more unjustifiable homieides at which the audience has crected its small hairs in horror. But with the possibility of having a mysterious knife thrust among one's ribs for inadvertent observations on the picture, even a news reel of the Coney Island bady parade would become interesting, and the more the subtitles, the more thrilling the picture would be. But such dreams seem doomed. The prosaic fine is more lawful than the glamorous murder...