Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After this embarrassing incident the juniors did their best to engage Lord Tweedsmuir's interest. Had he yet had any conversations of public interest with the President? Goodness, no! Under the Canadian constitution the Governor-General has no part in politics, can no more touch on public matters than his master George VI, whose personal representative...
...called for a 265-m.p. Duesenberg motor on a 178-inch wheelbase, the tonneau to contain a raised throne surrounded by seats for eight people, with star-shaped windows on each side and a crescent one in the rear (see cut, p. 59). The top was designed, at the touch of a button, to swing back and down revealing the throne-sitter-presumably Father Divine. The interior was to be lined with leather, the ceiling, of white plush with gold stars. On the radiator would be Father Divine's symbol, a dove. Aware that Hunt designed the throne...
...third game, the teams moved to Montreal, where "Les Millionaires," the Canadiens' famed cheering club, occupies the same block of seats at all their games. A temperamental team, which in streaks this season has been the best in the game, the Canadiens suddenly recovered their touch. Johnny Gagnon put the first goal through in the first period. In the second, Detroit's goalie Norman Smith, whose arm had been temporarily numbed during a scramble in the first period, signaled for a substitute and young Jimmy Franks skated out to take his place. Franks was good but not quite...
Many a U. S. church, when in need of money, knows of philanthropists who are good for a touch. But rare is the touchee available to more than one sect. Thus last week the richest man in Bartlesville, Okla. (pop. 14,763) made news by paying off the debts of the town's five principal churches. He, President Frank Phillips of Phillips Petroleum Corp., a Methodist, had last Christmas directed the town's leading banker to investigate local church finances. Last week, while other Oklahomans were debating whether Judas hanged himself on a redbud tree, Oilman Phillips quietly...
Specifically they are desirous that there be a paid secretary appointed by the H.A.A. to organize intra-mural sports for the Law School dormitories. It is expected that touch football teams and soft ball baseball teams will be organized among the Law School Halls, and among those outside the Halls...