Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing more than was bound to happen. But I never anticipated anything of the kind. I suppose I'm naïve and unsophisticated but that's the truth and I feel very badly about it. . . . The thing gets too big for you to keep in touch with all your people and those things happen...
...fact. Marcia vindictively arranges a weekend party composed of 1) the nightclub charmer; 2) an ex-mistress of Warren's whom he has fobbed off on a fortune-hunting Briton; 3) the Briton; 4) the ex-mistress's ex-husband, with whom Marcia, as a finishing touch, stays away overnight. Warren first thinks of divorce, then of mending his ways...
...sprawled in a chair, dozing in his stocking feet. Besides his feet, Mr. Jones's spine troubles him. A dislocated vertebra has for some time prevented him from exercising. He is anything but sensitive about such things for in all his dominant doings he employs the homely, intimate touch. And he would be the last to approve titanic descriptions of himself. He masks, or maybe unmasks, his will-to-power with an air of modest deliberation and open-minded reticence. He listens carefully to the reasoning and suggestions of his colleagues, especially Colleagues Couch and politically important onetime Senator...
...turn of the Century and later sought an outlet for her restlessness in such unrelated fields as running a smalltown newspaper for a while, horse-and cattle-breeding on her Virginia estate and sponsoring the co-operative movement among U. S. farmers. Sister Mary is constantly in touch with her brother by telephone. Together they joined Vincent Astor in financing Today. Mentioned for Minister to some European capital last week was another Harriman (distant cousin by marriage of Son Averell and Sister Mary)-Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman, a Wilson Democrat, whose Sunday night salons have long been a Washington...
Joan Miro, 40, was born in Barcelona, studied painting in his native city. That Artist Miro should get a better sense of shape and volume in his painting, his instructor made him draw from objects that he could only touch, blindfolded. About 15 years ago Joan Miro first appeared in the Paris art world, and in 1925 headed the most obscure group of modernists, the Surrealists. His early canvases were obscure enough, strange blobs of color against neutral backgrounds cut across by careening black lines...