Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Accompanied by managers and carboys, the touch football squad of the "The Dartmouth", generally and affectionately termed by those in the "know" as the "Short Green" for obvious reasons, rode into town last night for the first of their long series of annual games with the CRIMSON. The carboys, according to Mr. Webster, are vessels commonly used to contain corrosive liquids, usually sulfuric acid. Managers commonly contain almost anything...
Captain C S. Hoagland of the visiting touch and go men, was reticent to a fault when interviewed last night. "Wah-Hoo-Wah", was his only reply when queried as to the alleged rumor that his team would appear on skills...
...instance, is done on Jonah and his Whale. Not only are these two principals shown in intimate discourse, but Mrs. Whale lends a feminine and domestic touch to the scene with a little marital argument in which the unfortunate Jonah is discussed as a Jonah to the cetaccan digestion, much like Mr. Kipling's mariner who made it uncomfortable for the whale's throat...
...story of Baron Melchoir Von Dronte's experience in the see-thing and chaotic countries of France and Germany in the late Eighteenth Century, the admirable blending of the supernatural and picturesque, the touch of fantasy, and the vigor of its action, place this book well above Bram Stoker's "Dracula" as a tale of a life hereafter. With the well-told description of Von Dronte's early life the author skillfully disarms the reader of his will to disbelieve, and, having gained his confidence and credulity, he adroitly weaves his weird spell...
...this bewitchery, for such it is, not to be cast aside. It clings by a touch of Eastern mysticism, by the directness of the Teutonic mind that created it, and by the deftness with which common experiences are used to support supernatural contentions. We are all affected by this: "It would happen, for instance, that the striking of an old clock, the sight of a landscape, the melody of a song, an aroma, or even a mere combination of words, impressed themselves on my mind, as distinctly as if I had heard, seen, inhaled or otherwise experienced the same thing...