Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time-toughened to public criticism. Three aspects of the Kelley charges made them especially obnoxious to Mr. Hoover: 1) they dealt with Oil, that horrid substance which so blackened the Harding Administration; 2) they appeared in the World, of all newspapers the one whose good or bad opinions can touch Mr. Hoover most sharply; 3) they impugned his favorite Cabinet officer, his old friend Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur...
...middle of the Somerset?....Morris dances?....charades?....did we really?....well this is absolutely the last time....where's the bromides?....I'm all of an aspen....the toots....the jitters....the screaming meemies....what do I seem to have on?....well this certainly adds the formal touch....white ties for breakfast....Beaunash please copy....why did we do it?....there really ought to be a law....oh, my head....who's this on the floor?....and who's this in the bathtub? and in the fireplace?....the day after Gettysburg....who got in a fight?....he did?....well...
...Committee is sponsored by the Associated Harvard Clubs for the purpose of putting recent graduates and traveling graduate students in touch with Harvard clubs in the sections where they intend to live. The committee has been reduced from seven to four members as the larger number was found unnecessary. Belisle is the undergraduate representative...
There is probably no more difficult part to interpret than that of the beloved old reprobate. Cyril Maude in "Grumpy" and Frank Bacon in "Light-in" acted such roles with distinction and feeling, but they lacked the finished touch of George Arliss in "Old English," now showing at the University. He was, as one of the characters in the movie says, "in the grand old manner...
...Human touch No. 2 of the Royal visit was H. R. H.'s frank confession that, like most people, he did not know the difference between herrings, bloaters, kippers...