Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special train to Paris the Premier described these obligations as "audacious measures of rapprochement with Germany." His first act in the Capital, apart from the necessary call of respect on President Paul Doumer, was to get in touch with German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch. As fast as possible the two statesmen will elaborate plans for Germany to take the "initiative" toward an extension of the Hoover One-Year Moratorium or some actual cancellation of Reparations and War Debts which President Hoover and Premier Laval agreed Germany must take (TIME, June 29). "President Hoover stressed and I agree," declared bubbling, vigorous...
...note with great interest that the Harvard Law Students have come out overwhelmingly for prohibition. The poll is second only in importance to a similar vote of the Junior League. It would have been an interesting touch if information had been gathered at the same time on the average age of the voters, before prohibition...
...four-square stand taken in your last week's letter box on the CRIMSON's editorial "effusion" on the Army game prompts me to a word of explanation and correction. All four writers, three of whom approach the subject intelligently, are men less in touch with present day undergraduate thought, and especially that of the CRIMSON, than might be hoped for opponents of an undergraduate view...
Roused from his bed, to which he had repaired in order that he might prognosticate accurately tonight, Dr. Hu Flung Huey, the cooney Oriental, said that his employer, the Harvard CRIMSON would have little trouble in disposing of the Daily Dartmouth team in today's annual touch football battle between the staffs of the two papers...
...excellent political position be minimized. Idealism to succeed in politics must be tempered with a touch of realism. And there is no candidate who is in a better position to aid the country than the New York governor. He is a member of the Democratic party which, if the unanimous precedents of history count at all, is bound to be swept into power as the party out of office in a time of depression. While it is manifestly unfair to hold the Republican party responsible for the depression, that party has done incalculable harm, through its chief executive...