Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adams House contingent defeated Saybrook 7-0 on a pass from Lewis to Whitman. Eliot House won its first and only game of the season by winning from Jonathan Edwards 6-0 with Donahue making the touchdown. The Dudley Hall Ramblers beat Timothy Dwight 7-5 in their touch-football game...
Undefeated in all its games, the Dudley Ball touch football team won the house championship in that sport for the third consecutive year. They will face the Yale College champions at New Haven Saturday morning...
While homage was thick in London, Paris burbled over Picasso's latest joke. Sitting as usual in the evening at the Café de Flore with a chic woman, the forelocked Spaniard who has the Midas touch was joined by three picture dealers, then by three more. He picked up an empty cigaret package, cryptically manipulated it under the table, finally brought out a little figurine of a dancer with the remark: "Well, there's the latest Picasso." Amid a chorus of admiring compliments, artist and girl friend departed. The six picture dealers were just on the point...
...grilles low-set on the catwalk apron between hood and fenders to scoop up the theoretically cooler air near the ground. Adopted by no manufacturer but approved by the U. S. Patent Office is an extra-special gadget invented by David O. Wilson of Santa Monica, Calif.-at the touch of a button on the dash, this rear-end device waggles a derisive tongue and gives a Bronx cheer to the horntooter behind...
...nearly as good is "Time Out For Murder," in which a reporter (Michael Whalen) solves an involved but ingenious murder. Chick Chandler, as Mr. Whalen's photographer and constant companion, contributes excellent humor throughout, and Gloria Stuart, as a beautiful bill collector turned detective, gives the picture the light touch needed to put it over...