Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snowden, prowling last week in search of an economy that would not touch the poor, found what he wanted in Britain's diplomatic service, pruned the pay of Ambassadors and Ministers...
...first time in my life," she cried, "I saw the Atlantic Fleet given a silent reception at Plymouth! . . . But our gloom soon turned to hope when we got in touch with the men of the lower deck. I spent three days going among them, and never once came across a sailor who realized the consequences of his action. ... It is hard for anybody who does not know the British sailor to realize the simplicity of his point of view, but I assure my friends in America and elsewhere that the British Navy is as safe and sound as ever...
...Personal experience stories" which the group leader reads aloud: "Two fellows of high school age went off one weekend to visit a friend. He got in touch with a bootlegger and they had considerable to drink. The two visitors got thoroughly 'soused' and had to be taken home in an automobile...
Other fall sports will be organized as the season advances. A shortage of fields will keep the touch football league out of action until the close of the House football season. Next week is expected to see the organization of a House soccer leagu8e, under the direction of Coach Carr. If enough elevens cannot be formed, seven-man teams are a possibility...
...much with him, and it is with the men of whom he writes. One suspects his writing, somehow, of a past full of many themes and reports, where an anxious solemnity has routed levity. Nevertheless, the critique is acute and readable. The stories in the issue show a lighter touch, if less care. Structurally, they are not stories at all, but rather anecdotes, character studies, Mr. Donaldson's "A Form of Shyness" is particularly well-done. He finds himself at home with his characters, and they live--almost too well. Mr. Sulzberger's "Lena" is not on the same level...