Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowds in Times Square grow as the slow returns pour in! "Seven districts in Hammersmith give Wallace a plurality of 54," with James A. Garfield and Aaron Burr trailing badly. Then the grand finale in Trafalgar Square, with Landseer's lions magically changed to eagles at the touch of Henry's wand, and all the fountains playing pure Coca-Cola. What a revenge...
...Forster will add a personal touch to the Kirkland forum series on his works by reading and discussing his novel, "A Passage to India," Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the Deacon's Junior Common Room...
Robert M. Beren '47; Winthrop House; Economics; President, Debate Council (Coolidge Debating Prize); P.B.H; Freshman Red-book; Class Album; House Basketball, touch football...
...More Kaaskoppen. The three who worked to become one started with some advantages. Resentments between them largely disappeared before the common wartime enemy. Belgians now seldom speak of the Dutch as rich, unimaginative "Kaaskoppen" (cheese-heads); Dutch now less often deprecate "the French touch" of levity and gaiety in Belgian characters. The Germans gave the two countries a lesson in unity by quickly breaking the Dutch Ijssel and Grebbe Lines and the Belgian "Little Maginot" Line (demonstrating the folly of independent, uncoordinated defenses...
...Soft to Touch. Chinchillas are squirrel-sized rodents with wrinkly noses and turned-up tails. They are native to the high, dry, hot & cold Andes. To protect themselves from the fierce changes in temperature, chinchillas developed a remarkable platinum-grey coat with as many as 80 marvelously fine hairs springing from every follicle. So soft is chinchilla fur that a blindfolded person sometimes cannot tell when his hand is brushing it. The close-set hairs foil fleas, which cannot maneuver through them to blood-bearing strata below...