Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remained silent. At Washington, Secretary Stimson emphatically denied that U. S. representatives had taken any part whatever in the negotiations leading up to the "gentlemen's agreement." (The House of Commons presently heard exactly the opposite from Chancellor of the Exchequer Chamberlain who said "we have been in touch at Lausanne not only with European representatives but with representatives of the United States. . . .") Twenty-four hours after the Lausanne settlement and gentlemen's agreement had been published in full. Chairman Borah of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee said: "We have something yet to learn...
...Carmen, unlike murky Tom-Tom, was spirited, colorful; its settings a sunburned tan for daytime, a vivid purplish grey by night. There were many ballets; some starkly modern, some in hippy rumba style, one a whirlwind affair with the performers, in long green robes, mounted on horseback. Only unreal touch: the undersized, obviously stuffed bull dragged in at the last. The audience was bothered the first night by "Canadian soldiers" (Ephemeridae, big-winged lake flies, called "Yankee soldiers" in Canada), but well pleased were they, especially with Mary Garden; Garden escaping the guards at the end of the first...
...ranks of both were many teachers whose salaries had been cut. The 14,000 Chicago school teachers, notably, had been unpaid save for two weeks' salary in the past six months. Never highly paid, many a teacher had nonetheless helped feed destitute children during the year. Closely in touch with the ranks of the needy, the teachers feared further retrenchment. How would they avert...
Though Chancellor Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen was in Switzerland attending the Lausanne Conference last week, he received incessant telephone calls from Berlin, kept in closest touch. On soft-spoken but reactionary Chancellor von Papen, the German masses blamed decrees and orders which...
...psychic auras" which spiritualists have vowed perceiving. Ghosts may be realities. Onions radiate comparatively powerful waves from their tips. Strongest human radiations proceed from the finger tips of the right hand. Lett finger tips also produce a comparatively powerful emanation. One woman complained that flowers withered at her touch. The tip of the nose is also a sending station of these waves. Just before Professor Rahn left Cornell for Syracuse he scanned some yeast cells. They promptly died...