Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fated Hotel Cathay (see p. 14), he hoped to win this year's Derby with Sir Victor's Renardo, but finished in the ruck along with the favorite, the Marquis Evremond de St. Alary's French-bred Le Ksar.* But he showed his old touch on other occasions this season by winning the Oaks at Epsom Downs and the One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket with Sir Victor's Exhibitionist, the Irish Derby with Phideas. Jockey Donoghue's new job will not be training Sir Victor's horses, as was expected, but writing racing news...
...Touch Football--won by Lowell, 2 Dudley, 3 Eliot, 4 Kirkland, 5 (tie) Adams, Leverett and Winthrop, 8 Dunster...
...Touch Football--Lowell House, 18, Pierson College...
...thirteen more than in 1935-1936 and twenty-six more than in 1934-1935. Lowell House had 18 teams; Adams, Eliot and Kirkland 17 each: Dunster, Levevertt and Winthrop 14 each; and Dudley Hall 9. There were 29 teams in squash; 13 crews; 8 teams in football, touch football, swimming, basketball, indoor baseball, baseball and tennis; 7 in gold, 5 in spring track, cross country, and winter track...
...Influence People, Irving Tressler's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People had nothing up its sleeve to match its name or its blurb: "What I think of Irving D. Tressler couldn't be printed in anything but Braille-and then it would be too hot to touch. ... It is the only book which is today offsetting the 20-year drive by American advertisers to make everyone in this country popular with everyone else...