Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Otto von Bismarck, grandson of the "Iron Chancellor," lives lavishly in London as German Charge d'Affaires with his moneyed and shapely Swedish wife. Princess Ann von Bismarck (Née Tengbom). daughter of a famed Stockholm architect. Last week Prince Bismarck was chosen by Chancellor Hitler to touch off a stick of disarmament dynamite...
...load of Canadian liquor was to be smuggled in. When a passing steamer signalled that she was the Texas Ranger, inbound from Galveston, they did not inquire further. They knew the Texas Ranger was about due, and coastwise vessels of U. S. registry do not have to touch at Quarantine...
...stood up when the big. kindly German came on stage, clapped him louder and longer than they ever clap his sensitive, scholarly performances. Beethoven and Brahms-Walter's program last week -were painstakingly conservative. The other big-league conductors played almost as safe. Koussevitzky added Scriahin and a touch of his favorite Debussy. Stokowski chose Bach. Wagner and Schubert. Stock finished off with a mild dash of Stravinsky...
...arduous steps upward toward the detective bureau captaincy bring to the author a host of intimate glimpses into the sordid and gruesome lives of New York's meaner, more unfortunate social classes. The stories are bluntly told, occasionally with a touch of sentimentality; then again with pathos and even with indignation...
...committee also set the starting date for the golf and tennis tournaments, and for the inter-House touch football league, as Monday, October 16. A meeting of the eight touch football managers will be held on that day at 1.30 o'clock. Statistics revealed that approximately 80 men had signed up for golf, and nearly 150 had signed up for tennis...