Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ideas that spring from them, feel that here is a born historian. Actually, Professor Brinton came to Harvard in 1915 from his home in Connecticut(where he was born in 1808), wavering between English and History. "But English A decided that question-it scared me off," he says, a touch ruefully...
Included in the collection are such favorites as "Boola," the "Cannon Song," "Dartmouth's in Town Again," and "As the Backs Go Tearing By," and, of course, "Fair Harvard." The band also relaxes for a moment to play a touch of "Rhapsody in Blue" for the Elis...
...Shellbacks (traditionally permitting them to spit to windward except in the presence of one who has rounded Cape Horn), with a simpler initiation: ship's petty officers doused their noses with powder and fed them pills. Warned that the pills might be made of soap, Margaret refused to touch them until her big sister ate one and assured her it contained a cherry...
...funds (its small Manhattan headquarters last year spent only $35,000, donated by members). Pledged to help other alcoholics, members do little proselyting, help only when they are called on. Before A.A., all but 5% of alcoholics were considered hopeless. Of A.A.'s members, some 50% never touch a drop after they join; 25% get on the wagon after one or two slips...
...Missouri towns as far east as Boonville, and in Kansas towns all the way out to the Colorado line, people once more found newspapers in their mailboxes, and felt in touch with the world again. A few even wrote the editor, to tell him that after those 17 empty days without the paper, "life is getting back into the old groove...