Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Feb. 27 you have an article on the dog show of the Westminster Kennel Club and under the picture of the best dog the cap tion, "Mr. Thomas couldn't touch the devil." In fairness to the breed of Doberman Pinschers . . . I would like to state a few reasons why Mr. Thomas couldn't touch Ferry...
...Paderewski, TIME, Feb. 27, p. 47. "A recent indication of modern decadence, in Paderewski's eyes, was the fuss-&-feathers about Sir James Jeans's statement that there is no such thing as 'touch' in piano playing - that a pianist will get the same tone whether he hits the key with his finger or the end of an umbrella. Says umbrella-thatched Paderewski: 'Art is a question of personality...
Homer Martin to reorganize and purify the United Automobile Workers of America. Inasmuch as Mr. Martin had publicly quit C. I. O. (TIME, Jan. 30), and all delegates to his convention had just been read out of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, the buttons had a touch of whimsey...
Jenny's problems stem from the fact that last year she got married. The costs of starting a new home were tremendous and Jenny needed every cent she could get her hands on. But she was unable to touch the money which had been stored up in her. Annuity unless she left Harvard's employ and she couldn't afford to lose her job. The $50 in her Annuity were a frozen asset and she and her husband "just had to do without...
...When the red-headed Californian has his serve working," Perry stated, "nobody can stop him. There is not a player in the game who can touch his cannon ball...