Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...frightened, was thinking of betraying her husband. Driving into Texas she picked up three hitchhikers, Luther Arnold, his wife, and their 12-year-old daughter, Geraldine. She induced Arnold to let her keep the girl, thinking that her presence would detract suspicion. Then she persuaded Arnold to get in touch with her lawyers. She explained that two of the defendants on trial for the Urschel kidnapping in Oklahoma City, Farmer Shannon and his wife, were her parents. Arnold was to find out what Prosecutor Herbert K. Hyde had done about her offer to surrender her husband in return...
Socialist spokesmen were brutally frank: "We tolerated Dollfuss because he was fighting the Nazis, but the actual result of the government's policy has been to strengthen the Nazi movement enormously. . . . Touch our City Hall and you touch off a general strike. Attempt a Habsburg restoration and you touch off an automatic civil...
...outside activities this year as outlined last night will be the appointment of several deputation groups who shall keep in contact with the Rotary Club, the Kiwanis Club, and similar organizations. These groups will be made up of both Harvard and Wellesley students. Other members will keep in touch with labor unions and the Socialist party. Contacts will be kept with the Civil Liberties Committee which is now aiming to set up freedom of speech in Lawrence, Massachusetts...
...afternoon recreation is planned in the form of golf, tennis, touch football, and baseball. After dinner there will be entertainment and speeches by Dean Harry E. Clifford '89 and others. Admission will be free to members in good standing of the Harvard Engineering Society. The fee for non-members is $1. All members are urged to come...
...wife and is a repulsive prig. Not having seen the play, I cannot compare; that is fortunate, for one frequently finds fault with movies because they are not faithful reproductions. Much of the picture is painfully realistic: in places it seems to lack a swiftness of touch usually attained on the stage, and the debonair Montgomery is a bit out of his element as a heavy. However, I can recommend "Another Language" without reservations. Helen Hayes and Robert Montgomery perform ably and are assisted by an excellent group of actors in minor roles...