Word: touche
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...notices the livid face, floating like a mask upon the yellow Seine. Now it sinks and now it rises. Now the wavelets of the surface ripple around the protruded chin, and now the mud of the river bottom is washing about in the open mouth. Curious fishes touch their cold noses to it and then dart away. It rushes madly by the upper end of the Island of Paris, where the divided waters foam about the stone break-water; then it loiters idly, hour after hour, in the still waters near the shore. It floates under the noonday...
...neatness and newness is so noticeable, that we feel sure that they will carefully consider the complaint about the lower floor. In the first place, the pins are most of them wretched; they are old, worn, and battered, some so full of splinters as to be unpleasant to touch, and others so uneven as to make it impossible to stand them up. The balls are in insufficient quantity, there being few small ones, and those for the most part chipped or split. Add to this that the alleys are seldom lighted till five o'clock or after, that there...
...college faculties remedy an evil whose causes lie in the decline in college sentiment? Undue waste of time they can easily and properly prevent by maintaining a rigorous standard of scholarship; into the rest of the field they can hardly venture, and prohibitory legislation must fail to touch the evil, while arousing resentment. The college communities themselves must work the change; and first of all it is necessary that they be brought to see the evil. In the first place gentlemen, in the second place athletes, should be the principle characterizing college sports; they should be engaged in by rivals...
...kept perfectly straight, (not rigid, for rigidity tires the muscles), until the body stops to reverse its motion just back of the perpendicular. At this point the arms are drawn to the chest at the rate at which the body has been swinging back; but, as soon as they touch the chest, they are shot out forward and are again held perfectly straight. This arm movement is called the "shoot" because it is rapidly executed. A quick shoot is necessary; first, for the sake of uniformity: second, to avoid splashing when rowing on the water. The shoot, however, must...
After a few more philosophical remarks from the worthy representative of '85, we left, to examine our own bill, in doing which we were surprised to find how nearly coincident were our sentiments to those he had expressed. Yes, one touch of nature does make the whole world kin, after...