Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another, earlier touch of levity was the insistence by Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson that the U. S. delegation should land from their steamer in top hats, though two of them had started down the gangplank in soft headgear. "I feel rather like a Pilgrim father coming back to England," said Statesman Stimson, adding when correspondents did not seem to get his point, "My wife had two ancestors on the Mayflower." Another Stimson mot: "I have brought along my golf clubs, but I am no Bobby Jones." He laughed noncommittally when a British correspondent asked, "May we say that...
...recent Tardieu memorandum to the Powers seriously jeopardized the Conference in advance (TIME, Jan. 6), by dragging in such issues as "Freedom of the Seas" (which Statesmen Hoover and MacDonald had agreed is too inflammable to touch) and by disparaging the Kellogg Pact, which they months ago announced would be the cornerstone of their Great Peace (TiME, Oct. 21). If hard, kinetic, calculating M. Tardieu does not retreat at London a long way from his earlier positions there will be nothing to do but make a pact of less than five signatories, without France, or call the Conference a failure...
...innings, but three-cushion championships are decided by total number of games won and lost, and it was Layton and not Kieckhefer who played off in the finals against Otto Reiselt of Philadelphia. Both finalists were cautious. In three-cushion billiards, the cue ball must touch cushion three times before hitting the second object ball. So much muscle as well as sound knowledge of angles is necessary in bringing this off that, in an important match, players often try less to make shots than to "leave them safe"?leave both object balls at one end of the table...
...misfortunes of a large college that there is so little rapprochement between instructor and student, and it is one of the objects of the house plan to bring them in closer touch. The Faculty Teas, which were instituted for this purpose, fall somewhat short of their aim because, in the crowd and bustle of the Union Living Room, little else is possible but, an introduction to the Department members which attend. But various members of the Faculty, among them Professors Hooking and Whitehead, supplement these mass gatherings by extending invitations to visit them to students in their courses. Perhaps...
...Never!" shouted the devout deliveryman. "Pigs of policemen! You shall not touch with your dirty fingers the Pope's bread...