Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...garish window displays (including large gilded dollars), the store's bright salesmen sell securities listed on the Stock Exchange. Though the store was organized by an old stock salesman, it is now in charge of a seasoned merchandiser who gave it what Pirnie, Simons calls "the Fifth Avenue touch...
...would therein describe men?even should that give them the semblance of monstrous creatures?as occupying in Time a place far more considerable than the so restricted one allotted them in space, a place, on the contrary, extending boundlessly since, giant-like, reaching far back into the years, they touch simultaneously epochs of their lives?with countless intervening days between?so widely separated from one another in Time...
Firm and factual is most Essary correspondence. He lacks the colorful readability of Arthur Krock (New York Times) or Clinton Wallace Gilbert (New York Evening Post) but his touch is lighter than that of Leroy Tudor Vernon (Chicago Daily News) or George Gould Lincoln (Washington Evening Star). Thoroughly experienced in national politics, he sometimes gives routine stories a special twist to lift them out of the obvious. Unlike his Sim colleague Frank Richardson Kent, he has no sharp sting in his pen. He specializes on complex railroad merger stories, leaves foreign affairs mostly to his smart assistant. Drew Pearson...
...There's a general feeling of optimism in the air. You can almost reach out and touch it. The Depression has run its course. The upturn has come. We go ahead in spurts. It's time to spurt again to new levels of prosperity. Adjustment, that's the word. Therein lies the solution to most of our problems. The United States has a large volume of buying power unused. Buyers have been afraid to spend their money. The job is to unleash the buying power...
...beautiful girls in the magazine advertising sections came alive last week. Heretofore they have been hired by the illustrators, advertising artists and photographers who immortalize them, chiefly through agents John Robert Powers and Walter Thornton, who collect a commission for being in touch with artists. Counting on their own touch, 300 of Manhattan's 2,000 models-men, women & children-last week broke with the agents, organized a co-operative Models' Guild, complete with lounging rooms...