Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They Shall Have Music (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn) is a triumphant answer to the current Hollywood theory that it is impossible to make a good picture about a great musical celebrity. Choosing one of the greatest, 38-year-old Violinist Jascha Heifetz, Producer Samuel ("The Touch") Goldwyn provided the most obvious touch of all: Heifetz as himself, a sombre, undemonstrative young man with a fiddle which he plays as well as anyone in the world can play one. Instead of the story which eventually killed operatic pictures-plucking a well-known star off the Metropolitan stage, dousing him in tribulations...
...believes that the "magic touch of par" corrupted business in the booming 20s. "Par," he says, "is just as destructive on Pennsylvania Avenue as it was in Wall Street. Par goes to men's heads. When you see the bust of Napoleon on the desk of a businessman, you'd better get out quick and sell him short. The same goes for Government officials...
...authors of this spooky reportage was to link their stories to the activities of Otto Abetz, recently expelled Nazi agent, credited with organizing the pro-Hitler "France-Germany Society" and with having directed a pro-German press campaign during the Munich Crisis. Left papers added a new touch by substituting the initials of recognizable prominent Rightists, instead of the conventional Mr. X, as having been caught in the dragnet. As stories grew to first-class scandal proportions, Premier Daladier stepped in, warned newspapers that real or imagery revelations of the Government's press inquiry would be considered penal offenses...
...Wellington bombers soared out of Midland mists and headed for France. Fully loaded, cruising at 6,000 feet under sealed orders, they crossed the Channel to Le Havre, turned due south. At nine o'clock eight more squadrons of medium Hampden and Battle bombers left England to touch the French coast near the mouth of the Somme, pass west of Paris. At eleven two more squadrons of heavy bombers followed the path of the first. By noon some 150 English warplanes, carrying 400 men, were hovering over France; heavy bombers had passed the steel mills of Bordeaux, toward which...
After searching through his violent, labyrinthine books, the family of late Novelist Thomas Wolfe culled an epitaph for his Asheville, N. C. tombstone from his posthumous novel The Web and the Rock: "Death bent to touch his chosen son with mercy, love and pity, and put the seal of honor on him when he died...