Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dictator!" last session, the new measure simply invited the President to submit before Jan. 21, 1941 a plan to alter the executive establishment. The plan would become effective if Congress should not (without filibustering) veto it by majority vote in 60 days. Things which the President may not touch or have: Comptroller-General's office, Civil Service Commission, Department of Public Welfare or Works, more than six administrative assistants...
...theatre of Sarah Bernhardt, the court life of Victorian England, the restaurants of old New York. 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. What kind of personality has an umbrella...
This delicate little creature of God's own personal creation will give the final artistic touch to the myriad patterns of flowing life in this island . . . and many people will see this beautiful child in just so many different ways as she adjusts to suit each situation a new color in the rainbow of her versatile personality...
...French asked their Ambassador in Tokyo to ask the Japanese what it was all about. The British were "in touch" with the French. The Dutch and the Americans looked dumb...
Yardling sport fans will have a busy afternoon keeping in touch with the Frosh puckmen, who meet a heavily favored St. Paul's sextet at Concord and the hoopsters, who meet Tabor Academy at Marion...