Word: touch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Besson. By a vote of 335 to 28, they booted him out of office as a psychopathic case. Fat Inspector "Bouboule" was assigned to capture him. While the vote was being counted Besson fled. To a police brigadier waiting to clap hands on him, Besson snarled, "Do not touch me, I have my Parliamentary immunity. The vote, my friend, has not yet been counted." Out the back door he slipped again, and "Bouboule" found himself ignominiously suspended from the police department for one month...
Tense black-haired Antonio Brico, conductor of the New York Women's Symphony, makes music sound like all work and no play. Conductor Sundstrom's touch is lighter but her discipline is strong. Her orchestra was considered capable enough to play at the opening of the Ford Gardens at the Century of Progress ir. 1934. It played last summer at the Grant Park concerts, proved more popular than the solid old Chicago Symphony. Conductor Sundstrom, practical about her job, says: "Women's orchestras must not merely play well; they must even strive to play better than other...
...Maurois has frequently been hailed as the carrier of the tradition of Lytton Strachey, his portrait of that biographer is the most revealing in Prophets and Poets. He quotes enough of Strachey's witty and unexpected prose to establish convincingly the difference between the master's light touch and his own methodical, hard-working style. The sketch ends with an account of Maurois' meeting with Strachey: "On the first day we were alarmed by his tall, lanky frame, his long beard, his immobility, his silence; but when he spoke ... it was in delightful, economical epigrams. He listened...
Henry M. Rogers '62, oldest alumnus of Harvard College, yesterday east back over his activities of the last 97 years and his experiences as Union soldier, writer, world traveler, and lawyer. Rogers is still active in a Boston law firm, and keeps in close touch with the world, regretting that he can not work more than 24 hours...
...more active days, Rogers has travelled in India, China, "and way stations", and now keeps in touch with far places by radio. When listening to King George's recent Jubilee Address, he was reminded of the occasion on which the present King's father, then the Prince of Wales, visited Harvard as an Oxford student. Rogers carried the baton to keep the 99 members of this class in order...