Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Immediately after the Reichstag trial, Nazi papers snorted that Chief Justice Wilhelm Bünger and his associates were "too legalistic, lacking the common touch." To be sure that nothing like this should hamper the People's Court, it was announced that of its five members, only two had to be lawyers. The other three were to be chosen by the Chancellor from among those "who have had special experience in fighting off attacks against the State...
...only because there are not enough Hechts and MacArthurs to teach them how and give them bright lines to speak. Twentieth Century is good fun, slick, wild and improbable. John Barrymore is expert as the producer because, like the rest of his family, he is endowed with a touch of the spurious and theatrical. He postures, tears his hair, wriggles, shouts, jumps, and with a gesture or a lift of the voice delineates such spectacles as a herd of camels, Rev. Mr. Davidson in Rain, Judas strangling himself (with a strand of Magdalen's hair), a door bell going...
...same effect, Lowell House receives gratuitously free publicity for their dance and the H. A. A. is threatened with drastic reorganization along the lines of N. Y. U. Humor is sought through the time-worn device of placing incorrect head over a story and the final brilliant touch is the review of the Crimson-Lampoon parody by Robert K. Lamb...
...Author de Chambrun portrays: perhaps Shakespeare really was mixed up in Papist alarums and Essex' plot; perhaps he went to Scotland and had a fine clack with King James. But Author de Chambrun, though she is a bright lady and writes a conscientious romance, has not the vivifying touch. Readers will get more of an inkling about Shakespeare the man in reading three of his sonnets than by attending 30 such fancy-dress parties as Two Loves I Have...
What might well have been just another list of names has been turned from water to wine, and the announcement of appointments to the Faculty for next year, released for this morning, bears in letters of shining light the touch of President Conant's administration...