Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the idea had become so widespread among hard-hit farmers that God was afflicting them with the drought for a purpose that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was moved to speak out: "Yes, the drought is serious. But there is one angle which has a touch of the grotesque. That is the attempt to persuade farmers that the Lord is punishing them for reducing acreage...
Britain. So sacrosanct is the British week-end that Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon created a stir by letting it be known in London that, although he would not cancel his week-end in the country, he would keep in constant touch by wire with his Foreign Office. To the Commons Sir John announced in language elliptical but unmistakable that His Majesty's Government stands with Italy and France for the preservation of Austrian independence from Germany. London editors were unanimous in flaying the Nazi slayers, echoed the Evening Standard which declared that Germany is "the Dillinger of Europe...
...matches to one in favor of Australia when towheaded Sidney B. Wood Jr. went out to play Australia's Jack Crawford. Inspired tennis won two sets for Wood, 6-3, 9-7 before rain postponed play for the day (TIME, July 30). Next afternoon, Wood's touch deserted him and Crawford, deliberate, steady, workmanlike, evened the score, 6-4, 6-4. Wood finally found his game in the last set, won it and the match...
Sportsmen who last week examined the new $1 Federal Duck Stamp, which every U. S. duckhunter must henceforth paste on his hunting license, recognized a familiar touch. About the size of a special delivery stamp, it showed a male and female mallard coming to rest on some marshland. It was drawn by one of the nation's best cartoonists and its first anseriformiphile, Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, who last March became chief of the Agriculture Department's Bureau of Biological Survey (TIME, March 26). Postoffice officials expect it to become a collectors' item...
Marie Manfred, famed pianist and even more famed inamorata, goes to Italy for a holiday, almost immediately becomes involved with pianos and men, both of which she has sworn not to touch for some time. She has a violent affair with a sombrely pompous Fascist, whose physical charm temporarily overcomes her common sense. When he refuses to marry her, on the ground that the scandal of being her husband would make him ridiculous, she finds herself able to laugh as his enemies force him to drink their health in castor oil. Relieved of her hero, she takes on an earlier...