Word: combativeness
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Where shirts are black and blood runs hot, challenges to mortal combat are by no means out of fashion. But enlightened Italian society does not impugn a man of high station if, in the rush of affairs, he finds it more convenient to surrender his duelling privileges to some staunch friend...
...damned their enemy with a definition, California physicians, health authorities, sharpened the temper of their vigilance. The street-ends of the infected district were barricaded with ropes, guards were posted, armed with short shotguns, to enforce the quarantine. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appropriated $25,000 to combat the epidemic, appointed a special committee of experts to organize the measures. A serum, manufactured in Philadelphia, was rushed to Los Angeles by Transcontinental Air Service. The shipment contained more than 500 doses, enough, it was thought, to meet the present emergency. Four more deaths occurred, bringing the total...
Those disillusioning persons who insist that war has become entirely a matter of high-powered guns, cannon fodder, and casualties will be thoroughly discomfited by the reports from Morocco. There the dashingly romantic absurdities of uncommercialized combat are being reacted; prisoners are ransomed with Spanish gold; fiery sheiks of the desert sweep across the lonely sands with Damascan blades flashing in the sunlight...
...Koussevitzky Americans see a musician brought up upon Mozart, Beethovan, Wagner, Chopin, who ought, to their way of thinking, oppose jazz music in mortal combat. With Americans it is the rule that only those to whom the wall of saxophones, the blare of trombones, and the clash of brass are indigenous, can see in jazz anything but degenerate sensuality. Not so Koussevitzky. Without forsaking the classics, he calls jazz "good music". So pronounced became his modern tendencies that Moscow thought him too radical, and he left Russia. But he went, not to Paris, where he was indeed invited...
...tested by fisticuffs with one an other. . . . Our two elder brothers, long since dead, used to egg us on to a fight by putting a chip on one or the other's shoulder and daring the other to knock it off. This was always promptly done and a combat followed...