Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Fairhall was doubly confident of his information. He had soaked squares of the silk in body secretions (perspiration, saliva, urine) and in other fluids with which silk garments might touch (distilled water, tap water, salt water). None of the lead in the silk dissolved...
...expect some of his three sons to follow in his own mincing footsteps. But Miguel was born lame, so his only future was the Church. Juan, his father's favorite, was a physical coward. Pepe, the eldest, became a matador, but he lacked his father's touch. Pepe liked the life, however, learned all the dissolute extracurricular tricks. When his father arranged a marriage between him and Pilár, known to be a beauty, thought to be an heiress, Pepe quickly found she was too saintly for his taste. Left a penniless orphan by the death...
...approved formation of the Legion of Decency's national council, turned campaign details over to a committee of priests. Said Archbishop McNicholas : "We are not fussy and narrow about entertainment. We have not objected to many things that have worried other people. But in this matter where we touch youth, we feel that we must act to save them...
...Tsar Will Hays asked the Russell Sage Foundation to investigate Hollywood casting agencies. The investigation showed that: the agencies charged commissions as high as 60%; there were so many of them that aspirants for cinema jobs had a hard time keeping in touch with all; applicants were often cheated, mistreated, or subjected to improper offers. In 1926, the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. started the Central Casting Corp. to interview applicants for jobs three days a week, assign welfare workers to minor applicants, charge no commissions. For general manager the corporation chose an unassuming young man named...
...Foreign Correspondents' Bureau until expelled from Germany last year by the Hitler government. Anonymous Author ''General XV diary runs from May 1932 to January 1933- from the fall of Brüning to the accession of Hitler. A War Office official, he was apparently in close touch with most of the main political actors; a soldier but obviously no Prussian, he has little love for Hindenburg. His diary is peopled almost entirely with knaves and fools. Nearest approach to a hero is Schleicher, but as even Schleicher's intelligence becomes more & more powerless to stop...