Word: swordsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before. Against his will, irresistibly, he grinned. The effect was electric. Irresistibly Doug Fairbanks grinned and leaped his way to stage success as a bounding Lothario, a leaping Lochinvar who made love on the bounce. Hollywood gave him higher walls to scale, longer ropes to swing on, scores more swordsmen to engage in single-handed combat. His first picture, The Lamb, jumped his first ten-week contract, under puttee-wearing Director David Wark Griffith, from $2,000 a week to a three-year contract at $4,000 a week, typed him for life as an acrobatic comedian. Grinning, he slashed...
Navy completely outshone her 11 rivals in the recent fencing intercollegiate at New York City, taking five of the seven crowns. The Crimson swordsmen could do no better than sixth place in the final three-weapon standing...
Twelve colleges will be represented in the duelling fiesta, will Navy in the favorite's role ahead of defending champion N. Y. U., Rene Peroy's well-balanced Crimson nine man squad, and the Army swordsmen. The tournament promises to be packed with thrills with three now champions to be crowned and four topnotch universities battling it out for team honors. The absence through graduation of most of last year's men virtually throws the two-day affair into three wide-open races...
With the best team in recent years, Coach Rene Peroy will pit his fencers against Yale at New Haven this afternoon in their final match of the season. Led by Captain Skip Batchelder, the swordsmen have dropped only one dual meet so far this year and stand a good chance of winding up the season with an easy conquest of Yale...
...this year, the swordsmen have won a number of startling victories including defeats of Brown, Bowdoin, the Hartford Fencing Club, and St., Johns. After taking third and smothering Yale in the Pentagonal Meet, Coach Rene Peroy is hoping for a decisive win over the Elis next Saturday...