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Word: touch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grotesque ''stooges" (comic assistants). There are also: Fannie's nimble-footed brother Lew, the excellent ballroom dancers Gomez & Winona, a pretty little girl named Ethel Norris who sings and dances, good music by Harry Warren. For once, a Jewish production has acquired the smart, light touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jun. 1, 1931 | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...sorry to bother you but he seems to be a new man and a very good one and I should like to get in touch with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 25, 1931 | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...more difficult job of ascertaining the financial set-up of the industry, the relationship between holding and operating companies, stock ownership, management fees, interlocking directorates. After a year's secret work, the investigators are now ready to state their findings. Since this phase of the inquiry will touch the public pocket nerve, it is the phase for which professional foes of the "Power Trust" on Capitol Hill have most eagerly waited. Eminent in this group is Iowa's loud, intransigent Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart. Like Senators Norris, Nye, Howell, La Follette et al., he is ready to seize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Power Probe: Phase II | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...fountain pens), 1925 candidate-reject for Mayor of New York City; and by Pumper John M. Gibbons, general counsel for New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, who pumped for five years without pay in St. John's Catholic Church of Honesdale. Pa. After many a rousing hymn (favorite: "Touch Not the Cup") and a Big Free Magic Lantern Show presented by Grand Diapason Shafer, the meeting adjourned. History- "Chet" Shafer, an amateur student of Americana, collector (at his home in Three Rivers, Mich.) of old shaving mugs, cross-stitch mottoes, cuspidors and headless wooden Indians, wrote for the Saturday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Pumpers | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

...outline of the foreign service as a career appearing today in the CRIMSON, Mr. Mariner presents an adequate survey of the business of becoming a diplomat but he does not touch upon the practical matter of compensations. It has been argued, and with reason, in diplomatic circles, that "career men", those whose advancements accord only with their ability and industry, seldom are granted high positions in the service because of the expense involved in maintaining a minister's or ambassador's establishment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRICE OF PEACE | 5/20/1931 | See Source »

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