Word: duels
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...running duel between an American mogul and a canny crew of scotch boatmen, High and Dry is best when the Scots are trying to keep the mogul form repossessing a cargo that, by mistake, he gave them for hauling. They are quite casual about the chase, however, always ready to stop for some pheasant poaching, and positively avid to scrap the whole thing, put to shore and have a party. This attitude naturally distresses the mogul...
...Duel in the Jungle (Warners) need never have happened if somebody at Warners had spoken to his wife about it first. The story concerns a wealthy Englishman named Henderson (David Farrar) who is squandering his substance in an attempt to develop some offshore diamond fields. But as every bride knows, there is no point whatsoever in developing new diamond fields. Those at Kimberley, South Africa, more than supply the world with engagement rings...
...Than Ever. In Boston, Anthony Santangelo, 12, showed up after a four-day absence, explained to his frantic family that he had been to the movies, seen A Girl for Joe seven times, Living It Up three times, Garden of Evil four times, Gone with the Wind three times, Duel in the Sun seven times...
...Third brother Will, an Oxford miler who once dreamed that he was "careering about ... on a great horse . . . engaged in a cavalry duel with sabres with Mr. Winston Churchill." (In those days, Churchill was a Liberal; the Lawrences were Tories to a man.) Will became a teacher in India, joined the Royal Flying Corps at the outbreak of World War I, was killed (at 26) within a week of his arrival in France...
...Imprensa (circ. 50,000) has been beaten by thugs for criticizing the army, arrested for exposing police graft, jailed four times for political reasons, attacked in his home after accusing a high officer of corruption. Recently a pistol-toting hothead tried but failed to provoke the editor to a duel...