Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italian intervention in Ethiopia does not affect seriously our interests cried Sidky Pasha. "We received all kinds of assurances that Italy would not touch our ancient rights. ... We do not feel an; danger from Italy. ... We must realize with sad hearts that our country being treated in this affair as a colony populated with primitive peoples who have to bow without an understanding of everything imposed upon them! Ready enough to start bowing himself Sidky Pasha larded into his speech coy hints that Egypt must continue under Britain's thumb but should have her official "free and independent" status...
...company, been married, bought a car, been visiting, broken an arm, been courting, been divorced, been arrested, stolen anything, gone bughouse, lost your hair, had a birthday, had an anniversary, been bitten by a snake, had an accident, cut a new tooth or had an operation- Get in touch with a representative of the Gazette...
Marie Scheikévitch does not touch on the mysteries of his personality, hbut the individual she portrays, unlink the one who figures in most reminiscences of Proust, might conceivably have been written Remembrance of Things Past...
Robert Benchley as an inebriated traveller is so pleasantly silly that he almost walks off with the movie. He has never been funnier and contributes just the touch needed to make China Seas a swell show instead of a mere tour do force in melodrama...
...much to expect, that when the country is forming its most vital piece of foreign policy since the World War, the President should be at his desk in Washington, in closest touch with his Department of State and with the foreign embassies. At a time when the world is rumbling with a multitude of threats of war and passions are reaching a new high, President Roosevelt is displaying a nonchalance which goes way back to those gay, expectant days when he was Governor of New York. Mr. Roosevelt is doing the fishing; Mr. Hull is doing the frying...