Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrought") flashed over a government line from the Capitol's Supreme Court chamber (now its library) in Washington to Baltimore. Last week President Hoover inaugurated the centennial of the Morse idea when he ceremoniously fingered a gold-nugget-studded telegraph key in the White House. At his touch a high speed automatic transmitter began rattling out the President's message in the Capitol library: "I am glad . . . source of pride . . . honor to his country . . . inspiration to mankind...
...Professor Gosset raised a cheer from hundreds of people gathered around the hospital when he exclaimed: "The ball in the head did not touch the brain. Therefore I refuse to say that the President is lost...
King Vittorio Emanuele III telegraphed personally from Rome to Paris. King George V ordered his private secretary to keep in constant telephonic touch. Premier Mussolini, informed of the crime while in the Chamber of Deputies, blazed: "The assassin struck not one man but wounded and humiliated all humanity!" President Hoover cabled, "The attempt ... of a dastardly assassin shocks and saddens...
Because Gandhites are beaten every day, bored white correspondents have almost ceased to report their sufferings, but the British Labor Party still keeps in touch with goings on in India. Released last week was a report from Madras by Laborite Peter Freeman, former M. P. Reported...
...favor of justice by extra-legal methods cannot be doubted. This is particularly true in the South, and Georgia in particular has had a high total of lynchings to her discredit. Federal investigators of conditions have prophesied that increased construction of state highways here, bringing rural communities into closer touch with the judicial machinery, will curtail mob action. Anything destructive of the sentiment which motivates such action must be welcome. Representative Crisp's move, a step in the wrong direction, may be pleasing to his constituents. If he does not share their feeling he is a demagogue; if he does...