Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Quite sincerely, when you are rude to the present occupant of the Throne, you touch the kind old daddy, not of the aristocracy, but of millions of impoverished, overtaxed Englishmen in the middle classes who see in the King's outlook on life one of the few remaining pieces of sentiment they can still permit themselves...
...Episcopal diocese is currently vacant. But Bishop Jones does not wish one, caring less for executive jobs than for the "human touch" he found in his early missionary work...
...Cambridge, he wrote a book with the fearsome title, The Meaning of Meaning (1923). No mess of metaphysics but an attempt to examine the working efficiency of language, this book was the starting point of Basic English. His position as student of psychology and language has brought him in touch with many a learned head in other countries. From his Orthological Institute of Cambridge and his bachelor London house, crowded with switchboards and phonographs, Ogden directs a propaganda for Basic English that is now worldwide, numbers such potent adherents as Britain's George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Julian...
...greater scandal to the faithful was the fact that they had taken the Body of Christ, perhaps impiously thrown it away. It is mortal sin for anyone but a priest or deacon even to touch the Host. Desecrated, St. Patrick's high altar could not be used for mass last week until a public service of reparation was performed...
...that much discussed picture "M" which has at last reached Boston and the Fine Arts Theatre. It is inconceivable that such a piece of work could have been done by a Frenchman or an Italian; only a German could produce a film which does not have one single light touch to relieve its grimness from beginning to end. Despite this pre-occupation with the ultra-Micawber "A" is a picture arresting and unusual 'a its theme, splendidly photographed, and with acting that is always distinguished and even approaches genius...