Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This rather mystical testimony appeared to touch Russian Gorgulov deeply. "There!" he cried. "There stands the only man in France who understands...
Such persistent picketing gave Congress a touch of nerves. Vice President Curtis, panicky, had the Marines called. From the Navy Yard 60 arrived by trolley with rifles & bayonets. The marchers guffawed at this turnout. Ten minutes later the Marines were on their way back to barracks. "I'm fed up with hysterical meddlers!" snorted General Pelham Glassford, superintendent of the Washington police, whose amiable discipline has kept the B. E. F. in good order for eight weeks...
...many Englishmen, though not of course those in closest touch with the situation, think that the basis of negotiations [at Ottawa] will be a free entry for Dominion food and raw materials into the United Kingdom (with tariffs against foreign countries) in return for a similar free entry of English manufactures into the Dominions. This, of course, is a complete illusion. Canada, Australia, South Africa and India, especially the first, have all become largely industrialized on the basis of tariffs, and they have no intention whatever of allowing effective English competition with their industries...
Dublin officials pointed out that the Free State can easily obtain from the U. S., France, Germany and Belgium the manufactured goods she has previously bought from Great Britain. "That would realize," said President de Valera, "another ideal: direct, economic touch with other nations. In times of shrinking foreign markets ours is not a trifle...
...Roosevelt types her own copy. Last year she allowed her photograph to be used in an advertisement (proceeds to charity) for Remington portable typewriters with this caption: "It's my pet typewriter. ... I like its touch. It writes very fast...