Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Great days. The Vagabond often wishes that he could have shared in the tension and dynamic optimism which swept Europe like a flame in those two glorious years of revolution. The world made heroic gestures which were to crumple at the touch of steel, but the story of Rome and of Vienna, of Budapest, and Paris, was written too well to be obliterated under the returning tide of military autocracy. A Hapsburg was still on the throne of his conglomerate empire, a Bourbon swaggered in Naples, and a saddened Pope told his beads once again in the Vatican, but despotism...
...another William Jennings Bryan threatening the very foundations of U. S. economic life. In the Murray makeup there is undoubtedly much of "Old Hickory," much of the "Great Commoner" but there is also enough more to make him a distinct political individual. Crude as Lincoln, he has the common touch; active as Roosevelt, he dramatizes public issues;* honest as Cleveland, he makes public office a public trust; and like every intelligent demagog, he may be accused of twisting his economic convictions to suit the accident of politics. He is the political darling of really poor men everywhere. He is scorned...
...Malory family, so much livelier, prettier than her younger sister that Lucile never seems to have a chance. Yet Lucile gets engaged to Timothy Sheldon, whom Marietta fancies for herself. To stop the marriage she persuades her mother to have Lucile examined for tuberculosis; finds that she has a touch of it herself. In Switzerland, where she retires to recover, she meets up with young American Eugene Monk, becomes his mistress to spite herself. As soon as they get back to Paris she throws him over. To divert her jealousy of Timothy and Lucile, she starts on a round...
...season's grim Payment Deferred almost too real. This time Mr. Laughton is cast as the famed French operative Hercule Poirot. His accent is good, his mumming of characteristic meticulousness. Either Author Christie or Reviser John Anderson, capable theatre critic of the New York Journal, has supplied one crowning touch of veracity to the French mastermind's lines. He never becomes sufficiently acquainted with De Brett's Peerage to learn that Sir Roger, the murderee, is not called Sir Ackroyd. The Fatal Alibi is wan in spots, but the last act hits a happy clip. Only the audience, the murderer...
When James Branch Cabell published The Way of Echen, thereby putting his "final and finishing touch to the Biography of the life of Manuel," Cabellians every-where assumed that their author had wrapped his singing robes over his head and retired till kingdom come. Pending that happy advent, however, the creator of Poictesme must find means to ease his very restless head. To combine retirement with activity he now speaks his mind through a ventriloqual figure. Branch Cabell, sheared of his Christian name, is in all other respects his spit and image...