Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conferred on him its Honorary Freedom, set up a triumphal arch with two 46-ft. towers under which he is to pass in entering. Unlike such Irish cities as Kilkenny, Limerick and Waterford, Dublin no longer dresses its Corporation in fancy gear. But to meet Cardinal Lauri a special touch was necessary, so the Corporation planned to greet him in cocked hats, sable & scarlet robes lined with Irish poplin. Suitably robed also were to be those 16 Irish gentlemen who will carry the Canopy of the Blessed Sacrament in the procession, among whom would be: President de Valera, Vice President...
...rounded out a truly amazing decade. Most everyone is aware of a number of changes and remembers that much went on, but few have a complete mental picture such as this book gives. Racing madly from topic to topic through 350 highly compressed pages, Mr. Allen still can only touch on the high spots. But the quantity of the material is even more surprising than the content. An evening or so spent reading this book is far more entertaining and absorbing than a movie. It does, in fact, give the impression of a colossal comedy (or better tragedy) of errors...
...until last week-manager of one of the most famous baseball teams in history, the New York Giants. He has a sharp way of squinting his hard blue eyes, as though he were looking into the sun, a gruff, arrogant way of speaking. There was only a touch of his hardness, his arrogance in a typewritten message which Manager McGraw last week gave out to the Press in the grimy club offices of the Giants above Manhattan's Polo Grounds...
...collection of tales, folk, historical and otherways, she writes of the late Author Applegate's collecting of the various handicrafts of New Mexico's varied groups as his initiation into the mosaic racial pattern of Southwestern culture. "Through his sympathy with the things created, he came into touch with the things experienced." These experiencings, reaching him first by native word-of-mouth, he gracefully transcribes in full-flavored variety. A specimen...
...Rockwell Field in San Diego, Calif, the job of Corporal Kilmer N. Torner, U. S. M. C.. was mostly that of recording other men's flying hours. Once in a while he was given a flight as a passenger but he never had a chance to touch the controls. In such a job Corporal Torner could scarcely be expected to win a Distinguished Flying Cross. Yet last week he got one for an "extraordinary achievement ... of self-sacrificing heroism...