Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duties as Student Council Member in charge of Freshman affairs. Hedblom holds the position Keppel held last year and will help him in advising the Union Committee, running the Class elections, arranging the Smoker, and will eat once a week at the Union to keep generally in touch with any Yardling problems that may come...
...roles with equal fervency, William. Randolph Hearst has not been, so far as cartooning goes, nearly so potent an enemy of Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 as he was his friend in 1932. His Frederick Burr ("Happy Hooligan") Opper has retired; his Tom Powers and Nelson Harding have lost their touch. Hence Publisher Hearst's message of hate has been chiefly depicted by such second-string draughtsmen as King Features' James G. ("Little Jimmy") Swinnerton and the New York American's Dorman H. Smith. Both specialize in a moronic, capped-&-gowned Brain Truster. Cartoonist Swinnerton...
Following are the results in House football and House touch football for the past two days: Football Lowell 20 Dudley 0 Eliot 33 Dunster 0 Winthrop 7 Leverett 0 Kirkland 12 Adams 0 Touch Football Dudley 1 Dunster 0 (default) Kirkland 42 Winthrop 12 Eliot 24 Adams...
...Howard Hamlet is a delicate, sensitive youth, but with scracely a touch of the meloncholy usually associated with the Dane, Sober, self-contained, and introspective--Howard is all these, but with it all the thread of humor Shakespeare most certainly intended his Prince to have runs throughout this entire production. At times the wit is biting, at times it is gentle, and again there is a touch of rich whole-hearted merry-making. It seems almost as though Mr. Howard had determined to avoid the pit-fall John Gielgud's humorless characterization of Hamlet has apparently fallen into...
...when she does not like a subject- arithmetic is one-she can, like other little girls, be obstinately slow." ¶During the week King Edward kept in closest touch with the ugly situation developing as Soviet Russia threatened to intervene in the Spanish Civil War and stormy scenes among the diplomats concerned lasted for hours at a stretch in the British Foreign Office (see p. 22). To Buckingham Palace was frequently summoned the brilliant directing diplomat who is not always permitted to prevail at once in shaping the British Cabinet's foreign policy but usually manages to prevail sooner...