Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...within him . . . I dare not tell him to disobey. . . . He won't do it if I do tell him. ... All I can do is attempt . . . to induce the patient to behave in a way less harmful to himself and society. . . . Instinct should tell the western statesmen not to touch Germany in her present mood. She is much too dangerous!" Practical political suggestion by Dr. Jung was for the western statesmen to turn mystic Herr Hitler's attention away from the West. "Let him go to Russia. That is the logical cure for Hitler...
...play called Caesar, by Giovacchino Forzano, opened last week in Rome. The New York Times boldly predicted that the Rome reviews would compare Caesar to "Shakespeare, Goethe and Wagner at their best, and with a touch of genius that even these great men did not attain." "It is understood," continued the fimes, "that a relatively new playwright named Benito Mussolini collaborated with Signer Forzano on this opus...
...feet of film exposed for Union Pacific, DeMille and his cutter, Anne Bauchens, threw away all but 12,158. On the set DeMille manipulates his mobs through a special public-address system. When unit directors go to remote locations, he stays in Hollywood, keeps in constant touch by telephone and through emissaries described (by Manhattan's elegant railroad amateur Lucius Beebe, a technical adviser on Union Pacific) as "the king's messengers." Traditionally the best actor and dramatic writer on any DeMille set, DeMille is usually patient, sometimes disconcerting. When two minor Union Pacific actors began an argument...
...crew. Last year Dick was an oarsman on the Jayvee crew, but it is far from a natural occurrence that he should be on the crew again this year. There has been at least one man on last year's Jayvee crew who found the competition much too touch to keep going this year...
...copying that at St. Mary the Virgin." Latest innovation at St. Mary's: the use of a vimpa, a scarf of thin white silk worn around the neck, by which a bishop's mitre and crozier are held, to protect them from the human touch...