Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Feslermen are still seeking their second league victory and the Tigers will be anything but a soft touch tonight. Cappy Cappon has an aroused Orange and Black squad which cannot be kept at the very threshold of the comeback trail indefinitely. Despite the addition of Bob James to the starting lineup and improved all-round play, the Crimson must rate as slight underdogs to the Bengals...
...hand, my strength pushed me forward, But now may I only slowly touch the body Whose pain keeps it chained...
...Delight presented the fragmentary romance between an itinerant U. S. hoofer and the fake-Russian mistress of a munitions maker, in an Italian border hotel on the eve of a European war. All this added up to an amusing and superficially penetrating indictment of totalitarian politics. Whenever Hollywood touches material of this sort, it stirs up a tremendous agitation about whether or not the cinema will be courageous enough to retain the meaning of the original. In the case of Idiot's Delight, this agitation was augmented by the fact that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, after almost deciding that Idiot...
...steadily deepened, there was much talk from time to time of "prosperity just around the corner." But the banking figures, as recorded by TIME'S Index, persisted in showing a continuous decline until March 1932. The F.R.B. index and the Dow Jones industrial stock averages did not touch bottom until three months later...
When investigators closed in, one of Swindler Bob's front-men threatened to kill Prosecutor Fennelly and then commit suicide. He was sent to the psychopathic ward of Bellevue Hospital. Last week Promoter Bob was sent to jail for seven years. He had lost his touch. It took the jury only two and a half hours to convict...