Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this point alert Correspondent Harold Brayman of the Philadelphia Public Ledger broke in to ask: "Does your bill touch family trusts...
...strings; the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, a network of complex paths, lanes, byways and highways through which the human soul moves strangely. To know the complexities of the neural ways and cords and of the cerebral mass requires a chess player's intricate mentality. To dare to touch them with a knife requires unpassionate fingers...
...plucked with quills. First mentioned in print in the 15th Century, it became an elaborate affair with as many as three keyboards and 25 pedals to give a great variety of tone quality and volume. Nevertheles the harpsichord with its thin, clear tone required a much more delicate touch than the piano, invented in 1711. Bach knew of the piano but thought it an unmusical contraption. He wrote such great works as the Goldberg Variations for the harpsichord. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata was actually intended to tinkle along on the harpsichord but in his last sonatas he was the first...
Besides Mme Landowska, who teaches her pupils a somewhat hard, dry touch, contemporary harpsichordists include John Challis of Ypsilanti, Mich., Lewis Richards of the University of Michigan, Ralph Kirkpatrick of Leominster, Mass. A good harpsichord today costs anywhere from...
...Walter Marcks saw the old horse making his way slowly up the road. The animal came directly to him, where he was working behind the house. It seemed lonesome for the human companionship it had enjoyed during a long life. 'Old Bill' craned his neck at the touch of Mr. Marcks' stroking hand. "A slight shudder then, and Old Bill sank to the ground...