Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are three critical problems in the science of criminology. There is the problem of the prevention of crime, then the necessity of reforming the criminal once convicted, and finally the problem of his re-entry into a hostile society with which he has lost touch. The experiment about to be tried in Rhode Island is concerned only with the prison system itself. What is much more important and far harder to achieve is the spread of a sane attitude toward crime in the mind of the general public...
...dramatic touch suggestive of religious revivals in the deep country, Speaker Garner called on all those "willing to go along to try to balance the Budget" to rise. To their feet came all but a dozen sulky members. When he called for "those who do not want to balance the Budget," not a man got up. "I think," declared Speaker Garner triumphantly, "that ought to restore to the American people confidence in our country. ... I think more of my country than I do of any theory of taxation and the country is in a condition where the worst taxes...
Lest this move prove unpopular, the Soviet Press played up that same day a "human touch" story like those which have made the British Royal Family so popular...
John Hughes Curtis, a builder of small boats, said that a onetime rumrunner had come to him on March 9 as go-between for the Lindbergh baby-snatchers. Mr. Curtis spent two fruitless days trying to get in touch with Col. Lindbergh, whose house is still flooded by several bags of crank mail daily and constant telephone calls. Having failed to get in touch with the lost child's parents, Mr. Curtis sought out two fellow-townsmen connected with the family: Rev. Harold Dobson-Peacock. pastor of the largest Episcopal congregation in the South who used to know...
Mitzi: He's gone, but he had such a wonderful touch...