Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theatre column in TIME, April 26, your reviewer of Babes in Arms does not opine but states authoritatively-"Lyricist Hart-never topped since he observed in 1925, 'beans could get no keener reception in a beanery: bless our mountain greenery home!'-still maintains the lightest touch in the business...
...Gershwin's own deft language, "I'm seeking phrases to sing his praises." But, better -let him speak for himself to show your reviewer Mr. Gershwin has not only the lightest touch in the business but also the most penetrating...
...hours when the whole civilized world German nation. No matter what one's political ideology may be, the Hindenburg has shown that many of the things which we regard as important and vital in life can flame up and turn to dust and ashes in a moment before a touch of the hand of the Unknown...
...University is to make any real progress in cleaning the grimy spot of Freshman Advising from its escutcheon, something more better than seniors, who are interested in their own problems, out of touch with the Yard, and unused to winding their way through all the highways and byways of the University catalogue, will have to be found. It was suggested in these columns in February that a system of proctor-advisers be instituted,--the men to live in or near the Yard, to be given no more than twenty advisees a person, to have enough authority to make their influence...
...content with the rebuff which the University administered last year in connection with the 500th anniversary of Heidelberg and the similar problem of a Harvard representative, the Reich, with Brontosaurian lightness of touch, attempted to worm into Harvard affections by persuading Ernst Hanfstaengel, '09, official pianist to Hitler, to offer a scholarship. This scheme, nipped at a discouragingly early stage in its development, Germany has come across once, more, hoping that the balmy spring days along the Charles will lure the University into a trace in which anything will be possible--even the acceptance of a third bid from...