Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generations ago in a superbly entertaining gem of burlesque. The play contains all the legendary characters of the old-time thriller, from the farmer's daughter to the Bowery tough, and all the legendary lines from the villain's "Curses! Foiled again!" to the heroine's "Lips that touch liquor shall never touch mine." Francis G. Cleveland, Wesley Boynton, Edward Massey, and Sally Fitzpatrick, perfectly attuned to their parts, carry the play to the topmost heights of burlesque. If affords an evening of real fun. Thus far the program at the Peabody Play house has been most successful...
...Andrews found places among the Gobi dunes where groups of humans once lived. But he could find no traces of very ancient human bones, nor of protohuman fossils. Simple Chinese use fossil bones, which they call dragon bones, for medicine. Way to test a dragon bone is to touch it to the tongue. If the sample clings to the tongue, it is genuine...
Shortly after dusk President-elect Roosevelt docked at Miami on Vincent Astor's sleek white Nourmahal. After his twelve-day fishing trip he was tanned, cheerful, energetic, quite out of touch with affairs of State. "I haven't really seen a newspaper since I left, except the Nassau paper yesterday,"* he told reporters who crowded aboard the yacht to greet him. After dinner the President-elect got into an open automobile with Miami's Mayor Gauthier and drove to Bay Front Park where some 20,000 cheering Floridians and visitors were gathered to see and hear...
...pianist's candidacy looms. When U. S. newshawks pounced on M. Paderewski at Providence, R. I. last week he pursed his pale lips. "There is much discussion of the Presidency in Poland just now," said the Great Pole's secretary, "but Mr. Paderewski is not in direct touch with it. He has not been formally offered a nomination and naturally cannot discuss the subject...
Sportsmans Mutual hopes that its special $500 policy which costs $10 will soon be standard equipment for U. S. footballers, hockeyists et al. in all secondary schools and universities. Most dangerous school sport, shown by a preliminary survey made by Professor Frank S. Lloyd of New York University, is touch football. Its accident incidence is 17.11 per 1,000 to 13.68 for gymnastics with heavy apparatus, 8.75 for regulation football...