Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Hillyer, an associate of Adams House, will discuss the poetry of the late Dr. Bridges, poet-laureate of England a few years ago, from an analytical and critical point of view, and will touch on the writer's greatest work. "The Testament of Beauty" in particular. Professor Hillyer was quite intimate with the poet...
...Trumbull becomes embittered, loses his grip, and meets disaster upon disaster, until at the end his despised daughter guides him into the paths of truth. This is the sort of thing that can be, and has been, done well, but never by the movies. It requires a delicacy of touch, a sympathy of treatment which Hollywood has seldom acquired. For the movies a character is all wool, or he is the worst shoddy that ever was carted through mill door. Bancroft disregards any opportunities the directors might give him. He bellows, he swaggers, he is the usual rugged George gone...
...still a Cord running forward. At the Show last week was to be seen a new Auburn V-Twelve with at least one exclusive device novel to the industry? a dual ratio rear axle operated from the dashboard. From a 4�-to-1 ratio in high speed a touch on the button steps the car up to 3-to-1, giving great speed and smoothness on flat straight stretches. Able to do 100 m. p. h., priced at $1,345, the Auburn drew the largest crowds from the moment the Show opened...
...block long to carry everything that was offered to refine the pleasure of motoring. There were windproof matches, cigaret lighters, electric clocks, radio outlets, pneumatic foot rests, fancy metal tire covers, heated windshield wipers, sunvisors. There was an ejector spring that opens the door at a touch on the handle. More costly was a shock absorber system operated from the dash which lets the driver adjust his car to the roughness of the road (called "ride control," featured on Buick, Graham-Paige, Oldsmobile). There was a starting system operated by a button on the dash (featured by Hudson and Rockne...
...this film is about as noticeable as in any musical show, with the scene of action shifting from a Berlin cabaret to a German ball bearing factory and then to the Lido Beach at Venice. A few short shots of Saint Mark's and the canals add a touch of realism to the film...