Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...around. One-third of all whiskey in the U. S. is in Pennsylvania warehouses. Four-fifths of Schenley Distillers' precious 5,000,000 gal. are there. National Distillers has 2.000,000 gal. impounded. Until they pay Governor Pinchot some $14,000,000 cash they cannot touch it. Every distillery in the State shut down tight last week. Thousands of men were summarily discharged, grain and fuel orders canceled. Distillers felt like the settler whose axle broke just before the bugle blew...
...reader of this collection will agree with its editor that its author "possessed his measure of faults, and was pent in by even more limitations than usually afflict the race of politicians. But he had a soul that in its simple and unpretending fashion was truly heroic, and to touch his garment is to receive virtue...
...President Conant playing football (touch-football we hope) with some young friends in the Yard, behind his house yesterday. Quite unsupervised by the bureaucrats of the H.A.A., Mr. Conant was enjoying himself hugely, and proving somehow that Harvard indifference is a thing of the past...
...review of the fall athletic season, according to Arthur W. Todd '35, chairman of the committee, shows that touch football has made the greatest advance over last year. In 1931, there were 28 men taking part; in 1932, 56; and in 1933, 125. Only three of the 28 games scheduled were defaulted...
...down her leading team from Winthrop House, and that Yale's challenger was Saybrook College. Both of these old New England Colonial names--one that of the first Governor of Massachusetts, and the other the fourth English settlement in Connecticut, founded by the same John Winthrop--gave an interesting touch to the occasion. But the real interest lay in the fact that the first game was being played between Yale and Harvard on the new lines of purely amateur-coached and informally selected elevens. The game was a tie, but was a good one, full of hard playing, quick thinking...