Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from God, believe that all man-made laws and governments are the work of Satan. In this they include the Nazi State. Police told them months ago to disband. They did not. They were arrested. But their treason was so huge and vague that even Nazi law could not touch them and they were acquitted...
...first homerun in two years, was on third base, with two out. New York's Catcher Kies threw to second, to catch a base-stealer. Maranville started for home. Instead of sliding face first, as usual, Maranville tried to run across the plate. As he reached in to touch it, his shin cracked against Rookie Kies's leg-guard. Maranville turned a somersault, landed with the lower part of his left leg grotesquely dangling. It was broken in two places, five inches above the ankle. Doctors who reset it at a St. Petersburg hospital doubted whether Maranville would...
...Criminal Identification Bureau who stated that he had not been asked to make any investigation of the Switzes, their family or their friends. Just to be sure, Scotland Yard carefully examined the Chelsea, London flat in which the Switzes lived for many months. There they found a new touch of mystery-dozens & dozens of eggshells, carefully blown, with a neat hole in one end of each...
Shrewdly timed to touch obliquely on current Jew-baitings in Germany and mishaps on the stock exchange, The House of Rothschild is an historical picture in the grand manner, conducted with splendid energy and style. "Dignity" is what old Mayer Amschel Rothschild advises his sons to acquire. The picture, like Nathan Rothschild, is dignified without being stupid. As squealing little Julie Rothschild, Loretta Young manages to be gay without appearing to have stepped into pro-Victorian England out of a Ziegfeld chorus. C. Aubrey Smith is excellent as Wellington. As old Mrs. Mayer Amschel Rothschild, who gets the wittiest lines...
...David Harum" is the story of a backstate banker who goes "a long way on character and an even longer way on collateral.: In addition to being a notorious horse-trader and "a hard man to deal with" he has a touch of true Yankee kindness which James Cruze, the director, takes care not to over-sentimentalize...