Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Good evening, men," Whitsitt may say, "tonight's feature story is headed: 'Thirteen incorrigibles shipped to Siberian stir.' " Siberia, in Michigan stir talk, is Marquette prison. Other items may have a warmer touch. Prisoner So-and-so lost a picture of his wife in the textile factory. Reward for its return: two packs of cigarets. Prisoner Such-and-such will swap a pair of $12 shoes, which don't fit him, for 16 packs of cigarets. Whitsitt used to broadcast complaints and comments on prison regimen, too, but nowadays he has to stick to straight news...
Lowell's undefeated touch football team plays Vanderbit College at 10 o'clock this morning near soldiers Field...
...common people thought he ate nothing but ambrosia and champagne, and he didn't like this. And he saw that this was an opportunity to show the common people that he had the same middle-class sentimentality that they had, so he edicted in his common-touch manner--"There are some things in life holier than the mundane desires of earth. Sentiment is more noble than stomachly desires. Your Governor realizes this and asks you not to deprive your children of the edifying effect of tradition. Let us celebrate our own dear Thanksgiving as usual...
Following a deadlocked telephone conversation with an obdurate stage manager and a fruitless telegram, Harvey, describing his message as "most urgent," was able to get in touch with the famous figure, now appearing at the Shubert in "DuBarry Was a Lady," and popped the question...
...daughter, he lives part of the time in a big Manhattan town house, part of the time on a 50-acre estate in Pennsylvania's literary-minded Bucks County. Dark-eyed, grey-haired Beatrice Kaufman, whom he married in 1917, is gay, sociable, hostessy, keeps her husband in touch with such friends as Woollcott, Harpo Marx, the Robert Sherwoods, the Irving Berlins. To Woollcott, whom Kaufman has hilariously scalped in The Man Who Came to Dinner, and who has been at different times his collaborator, brief biographer and boss, he is devoted. Talking to him, he says, "is like...