Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lace-frill motif in valentines is decidedly on its way out," one stationer said. "That type is apparently joining the old comic valentine which disappeared several years ago. The modern valentine is becoming clean-cut and the ones with a touch of humor are the most popular...
...panes. Simplicity is the note. The spy, Madeleine Carroll, has a quiet love with quiet Herbert Marshall, her co-worker, does not fall into a titanic international one with her "objective," the local German bigwig. She is even unhistorically rescued at the end, after being condemned to death. One touch of war is thrown in. A German regiment, worshipping in an open field on a Sunday, is made one with God through the neat work of three British planes an unusual thing to see in a British-made film...
...generated from sulphuric acid and iron filings. She carried a long control car, the keel of which was a cylindrical fuel tank. From it were suspended a lifeboat and a long cable trailing a cluster of 30 hollow steel cylinders. This last device, called an "equilibrator," was supposed to touch the water, keeping the dirigible at an altitude of 200 ft. If the warm sun should cause the ship to rise, the equilibrator would act as ballast. There were two 80-h. p. engines...
...trouble. Last April he was forced to remain indoors for two days with a congested nose and sore throat. In July a slight cold helped him lose two of the seven pounds which he had picked up during his sailboat vacation. In September another head cold and touch of fever again confined him to bed & study, and left a hangover which required a weekend in the sun aboard the Sequoia to eradicate. Last time that he was indisposed was late in October, when he went to bed with what he called the "sniffles." Since then he has been taking sunlamp...
Louis Adamic's was an exciting homecoming. He had not seen his parents, his nine brothers and sisters for 19 years. Aside from occasional letters to his family, he had long lost all touch with his native Slovene tongue. He was bringing his U. S. wife to see the old folks. He thought of himself as completely "Americanized." But almost at the first sight of the Dalmatian coast his forgotten language came back with a rush. In Trieste a Slovene official bade him a ceremonious welcome home, showed him newspapers bursting with his praises. In Jugoslavia, especially...