Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until two years ago he played touch football twice a week with his students. To his students Dr. Nash is known also as a man with an encyclopedic memory and a sense of humor, brusque in speech, sharp in thought. His favorite expression: "It's as plain as a pikestaff, gentlemen." Liberal in politics, he is president of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, a charter member of the Church League for Industrial Democracy. He was surprised but glad to get the St. Paul's job, for he believes religion should be the centre of education and St. Paul...
...card began. "Politeness and good behaviour will ensure a kind reception and sympathy for you everywhere. Do not speak loudly in the streets, particularly at night. Be considerate about the comfort of other people, and avoid damaging the property and furniture of others." The card concluded with a Nelsonian touch: "Never forget that England's opinion of German refugees depends upon your behaviour...
Kirkland won the House fall track championship and tied with Winthrop for House football and with Dudley for the indoor baseball championships. Dudley also won the touch football championship...
Dudley triumphed in the House touch football league beating out Eliot, Kirkland, and Lowell while in fall track Kirkland came out victorious in the meet on October...
...Then it had the verve to produce certain dramas that Broadway wouldn't dare touch," the Pulitzer Prize playwright continued. Wilder pointed out that Oxford and Cambridge Universities invite English actors and actresses to take part in distinguished plays unsuited for commercial production. "Why the Yale Dramatic Club has been doing it," he declared, smiling...