Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ransom. Meantime the frantic Lindberghs were making stronger and stronger efforts to get in touch with the kidnappers. Two days after the kidnapping, NBC broadcast: Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh not only wish but hope that whoever is in possession of the child will make every effort to communicate with them...
...completely the Lindberghs, their advisers and police had knuckled under to the kidnappers was evidenced in a still later bulletin by Columbia Broadcasting System which suggested that those in possession of Charles Augustus get in touch with some lawyer, who would be ethically bound not to betray them, or communicate with the Lindberghs over a dial telephone, from which no call can be traced. Only an ominous silence was forthcoming from the abductors...
...Brothers Bill and George ran away from their Toadsuck home. A third brother, now dead, went along. In 1895 they started a newspaper in the back room of a barber shop at Corsicana, Tex. Two years later the Murrays separated and George did not get in touch with Bill until Bill got into politics. When the Murray-For-President boom began, Brother George put Brother Bill's name in the North Dakota Democratic primaries to be held March 15. Last week they stumped the State together...
...fall to make way for the return of Falernian and Caecuban. Propaganda must teach the gospel of Bacchus, and the world be taught again to hold precious the gifts of the god. Meanwhile, liqueurs, the misbegotten brats of Mercury and Ceres, hold sway. Men drink, but they feel the touch of Circe's wand, not the warming joys of gentle Liber. The noisome juniper has dethroned the luscious grape...
...Vagabond's mind ran on until it reached the present. What could the inmates of a house plan upon departing leave behind them? What footprints on the sands of time? Would a man dare to touch the smooth serenity of a Dunster fireplace? Could he scrawl on H. A. Q. '32 upon a new white slab. Alas, what chance has any man to leave behind him a little unremembered act, to write his name upon the panels of the future? Such are the penalties of sophistication, such the trials of luxury. Men will come, remain, and depart like the seal...