Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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World War II found Wilhelm boarding with an elderly schoolteacher in the drabbened diplomatic district. He was now bald, with an impressive white mustache and a touch of TB. He managed to dress neatly, and some suspected that he was a black-marketeer. One evening last summer, he was seen dining in style at Vienna's gay, expensive black-market Restaurant Charly. He had just been given a job as manager of a Viennese chemical concern. Then he disappeared...
...evil face.* In this same week Moslems will celebrate Id-el-Atha, their version of the story of Abraham and Isaac. Usually they sacrifice cows, but this week many, lest the Hindus be offended, plan again to sacrifice sheep.† Even so, the two coincident festivals might touch off killing in Bengal, which, along with Bihar and the United Provinces, is considered the next great danger spot...
...Frederic Remington, cabled from Cuba in 1897 that "there will be no war," William Randolph Hearst cabled back: "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." Last week the aging (84) Lord of San Simeon was out to prove that his hand had not lost its touch. This time it was not Spain but Russia on which Hearst had declared...
Yardling intramural gridmen tired of shedding their blood in contact engagements will get a chance to sign up for places on Freshman touch football teams today at the Union...
...meeting of the Yard Intramural Athletic committee yesterday, members moved to form a new touch football league embracing only the various Freshman dorms. The season will open on November 3, and full athletic credits will be given...