Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...immediate job of attending King George's funeral this week, France required a "Funeral Cabinet." The post of Premier, after M. Herriot and others had refused to touch it, was hastily palmed off by President Lebrun upon a man who is always handy at the scene of accidents. Target of two clumsy would-be assassins, survivor of two duels, a railway bridge wreck and several motoring mishaps; the statesman who was the responsible Minister of Interior when scandalously inadequate police protection made possible the assassination of King Alexander of Yugoslavia on French soil, M. Albert Sarraut is an otherwise...
...second match was touch and go for five long games. Jeffrey R. Short '36 finally edged F. C. Chase of the Dartmouth Club for the Varsity's first victory...
...accused of seeking her daughter's income after she had spent large sums to establish Ann's legitimacy in court when Father Hewitt's brothers and sisters contested his will? Furthermore, her daughter's chief charge was absurd since neither of them could ever touch the trust fund principal, which was reserved eventually for Cooper Union...
...studied law. Boosted from a city magistrate's insignificance by Tammany and Hearst in their effort to defeat Reformist John Purroy Mitchel, he won the mayoralty election in 1917, fought with his party on transit policy. Finally repudiated by Tammany, which preferred James J. Walker's lighter touch, Hylan ran against Walker and lost in the primaries, was appointed by his successor a Children's Court Justice...
...never taken the Japanese seriously, likes to regard them as a comic-opera race. It might also partly account for the delicate sympathy of The Wooden Pillow, whose author is an Englishman. But even the most arrant xenophobe could find little to feed his fears on and much to touch his Western conscience in Carl Fallas' gossamer tale. Japanese travel bureaus would be shrewd to boost The Wooden Pillows sales. Cynics may suspect that the land Author Fallas writes of is more Utopian than Japanese, but even cynics will succumb temporarily to its charm...