Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This afternoon on Soldiers Field, Dudley plays Kirkland and Leverett takes on Winthrop in touch football...
...yesterday's touch-football contests, evenly-matched Lowell and Eliot battled to an 18-18 tie. The second game, scheduled between Adams and Dunster, was not played when the Funsters showed up short four players...
...Touch and Go (sketches and lyrics by Jean & Walter Kerr; music by Jay Gorney; produced by George Abbott) is that never too common object, a lively topical revue. It has a nice sassy way of cutting up-once or twice, even, into murderously small pieces. But it can be genuinely funny as well as sassy, and it disdains rented jokes and reupholstered sketches. Campus bred,* the show has much more pertness than polish; it tends to slouch around with its socks hanging down, and it has the amateur's faith in the pen to the exclusion of the blue...
...organ music, popping flashbulbs and happy smiles. When that ceremony was done, the newlyweds trooped down to Manhattan's Russian Orthodox Cathedral, there were married all over again with double crowns and crown bearers. A brilliant reception at the Sherry-Netherland's Chanteclair Room added the final touch of ritual...
Lotion-maker Andrew Jergens, who relentlessly advertised the charm of soft hands, was no soft touch for labor unions. Though the A.F.L. Cosmetic Workers were certified in 1941 as bargaining agent for Jergens' 150 employees in his Burbank, Calif, plant, Jergens refused to bargain even after the National War Labor Board ordered...