Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feel particularly qualified to represent this great Commonwealth. . . . I have acquired intimate knowledge of the problems of government. . . . I have been in daily touch with all questions affecting capital and labor . . . and have made hundreds of decisions of great importance to each. The success of my administration is best proven by my three successive appointments. . . I have never failed to advocate those things our people thought best for their prosperity and happiness...
...WITHOUT WOMEN?Under-sea heroism with the right touch...
...went well for several weeks until the pair went to call on a gentleman from the West, who possessed a brace of 45's. He found that with their leather holsters and cartridge belt, the "shooting irons" lent a decorative, masculine, frontier touch to the effeteness of his Cambridge quarters. He had heard about the unique sales arguments of the two vendors of booze, and when the pair arrived in his room one evening, he had an idea of how to bolster his sales resistance...
Membership in this organization is now considerably below its possible quota, due in large measure to the tendency among graduates to lose touch with their college upon entering the business or professional world. Presumably the average undergraduate leaves Harvard with the idea of maintaining a contact of some sort with the University. For the fulfillment of this desire, the various Harvard clubs from a very practical medium, but lose much of their effectiveness in postponing membership eligibility until the severance of all active connection with the college...
Following this practice, the linemen clashed in a game of touch football for warming-up purposes, while the ends collaborated in a medicine-ball session...