Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long-ago times the Republican party used to run this country of ours. That fact may seem incredible to the postlandslide generation, yet some items in yesterday's news reminded oldsters of the days of their youth, arousing in many a faint touch of nostalgia. Herbert Hoover and Andy Mellon, the one demanding restoration of the gold standard (O ruined relic of a bygone time!) and the other defending himself in an income-tax suit (Thus low have the great fallen!), have again been granted space in the newspapers. Smiling wistfully, yet for all their misfortune looking well-washed...
...rest of his life he wore a succession of handsomely curled wigs. Quick success in painting portraits of his frontier neighbors enabled him to travel. To study painting he went to St. Louis, Philadelphia, Washington, eventually Düsseldorf, but he never lost touch with Missouri, never wearied of wading into her political struggles. He was elected to the State Legislature in 1848, became a captain in the U. S. Volunteer Reserves in 1861, was State Treasurer in 1862, was defeated for Congress in 1866. In 1874 he was president of the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners...
...stooges were overpowered when presented with real talent such as Jack Whiting and Mitzi Mayfair. After appearing with Baker in the recent "Calling All Stars," they have accompanied him on his vaudeville tour. Herein lies a chance for Harvard men who miss their Broadway to get just a touch of it. But it's only a fleeting glimpse. Jack Whiting exhibits his handsome blond profile in putting across, as only he can, a few of the songs from his stage successes. And buxom Mitzi Mayfair twists her rubber legs into unique contortionist poses. The audience, overawed, sits on its hands...
...section of the world has been exploited for the cinema more thoroughly than Africa. Well aware that the Dark Continent's flora and fauna offered little novelty, Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson, who have spent the last decade taking pictures of it, tried this time to introduce an experimental touch by ''exploring" Africa by air. Equipped with two Sikorsky amphibians, they conducted what seems to have been an eminently pleasant junket, stopping from time to time for close-up views of zebra, cheetah, lion, trout, elephant, man and finally a colony of unscrupulous baboons...
...nature of a public service internship. Through a cooperating committee it is hoped that the student may be placed in a position in governmental work or in certain types of private enterprise where he will get practical experience. During this year he will also be in touch with the University and then return for a final year of work which will knit together his study and experience...