Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eliot Houses, intramural football seems to be particularly unattractive this season. On the Freshman field yesterday, Coach McIntosh of Lowell House put his two-man team through a rigorous practice of bewildering reverses and smashes while Dunster, Adams, and Leverett amused themselves by playing a hybrid combination of touch football and basketball. Winthrop and Kirkland Houses alone were seriously practicing organized plays...
This afternoon Dolph Samborski and Norman Fradd will don white knickers, to add realism, and under the stare of these sartorially perfect referees the three Varsity teams and the Jayvee eleven will stage two real games. An added touch will be the presence of Cambridge's star cinematographer atop a new scaffold, who will embalm the efforts of the heroes in celluloid, to facilitate future fault-finding and correction...
...worth seeing, and too few see it. With their limited resources the New Theatre Players do an excellent job. The casting is perfect. The play suffers, like most avowedly propagandist plays, from too much earnestness on the part of the playwrights (Paul Peters and George Sklar). It lacks any touch of relief from exciting, sometimes harrowing situations. The structural fault in its conception is obviously this tie scene after another. The acting of both the negroes and whites is good enough to being off the needed effects through the first two acts, but the third act is somewhat...
With a similar type of schedule, although on a less formal basis, the house touch football season will begin on October 7. The winners of this series will meet the Yale winning touch players here on the morning of November...
...bankers acceptances, short-term paper. Because the late Arthur Salomon originally hoped to model his firm on the big London discount houses, advertisements are always signed "The Discount House of Salomon Brothers & Hutzler," though the term is almost meaningless today. Its bond and paper business keeps it in constant touch with banks and institutions, and the Socony issue was placed last week without the aid of dealers or a banking group. Moreover when the partners assembled in their private paneled dining room at No. 60 Wall st. at 8 p. m., they had earned their full $200,000 commission...