Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent there because the Chinese are expert carvery and know its worth. It was classified to us as follows: violet-tinted white, some slightly amber tint, white (pure), apple (light) green, darker shades of green, muddy (yellowish) white, etc. A common test is extreme hardness and its coldness to touch regardless of weather...
From London to Gandhi cabled Vithalbhai Patel, onetime President of the Indian Legislative Assembly: "You expect His Majesty's Government to modify its actions. Your expectation is based upon the assumption that the British Government has a heart which we can touch by our sufferings. It is heartless. ... I, with all Indians abroad, deplore your decision to fast unto death...
...life completely and continually conscious of its speed would become intolerable. It allows the man condemned to death to sleep. . . . Opium gave me this fixative. Without opium all projects, marriages, travels, seem to me as foolish as if some one falling from a window wished to get into touch with the people in the rooms which he passed...
...similarity in his characterizations which are therefore hard to criticize as separate exhibitions. Combined Rudolph Valentine and Douglas Fairbanks is the order of the day, and the part is well filled, barring a certain lack of fun and, overmuch grimness. One would ask for a little more lightness of touch...
...Never before in our history has government, national, state, and local, been in closer touch with our lives, business, and every move," Saltonstall said. "We feel the closeness of this touch every time we benefit by a new service of the government or are called upon to pay for it." Pointing out that government has grown faster during the last decade than any great industry, he deplored its failure to attract a corresponding amount of brains...