Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid customs duties at Dover on her $20,000 Paris clothes. "I packed them myself. I love to touch them! They are so beautiful. I was so excited I got up at 4 o'clock this morning...
...final touch the Italian film of the St. Stephan's sinking (also to be seen currently in The First World War) was obtained. On June 11, 1918, the St. Stephan, flagship of the Austrian Navy, was attacked in the Adriatic by Italian torpedo boats. A torpedo found its mark and the St. Stephan began to list and sink with terrible rapidity. Frantic Austrian sailors are to be seen clambering up her steep deck and over onto her almost horizontal side. At that point the ship quivers convulsively, shakes many of them off into the water. Others manage to stay...
Zweig is neither Catholic nor Protestant so his approach is reasonably objective and his work is free from the heavy touch of axe-grinding. His perceptive style is devoid of superfluities and the work is one of stimulating scholarships...
Said General Johnson on Sept. 14: "During the whole intense [NRA] experience I have been in constant touch with that old counselor, Judge Louis Brandeis....He thinks NRA is too big, and I agree with him." To date that statement still stands undenied...