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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could be and was proud-such as John Drew, Henrietta Grossman, DeWolf Hopper, Frederick Warde, Rose Stahl, Otis Skinner, Mrs. Fiske and many others, most of whom have passed out, as the stage goes, and many of whom have passed on, as humanity yields its units to the touch of time. Mrs. Owen and I alternated for several years at writing for our paper reviews of productions as presented at Montgomery's famous old show house, the Grand Theatre. After Mrs. Owen and I had returned to the Advertiser's offices one night from witnessing a rather shabby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1932 | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...newspapers in any big public library will generally find issues of a century or more ago in good condition. As he passes the 18705, when woodpulp began to replace costly rag paper, the pages turn yellow and brittle. Papers of the Spanish American War period will crumble at a touch, for then pulp print was at its worst. Later volumes are in fairly good state of preservation but they, too, will gradually disintegrate with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vanishing History | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

Undergraduates interested in playing in the cast of the Ben Greet production of "Julius Caesar" on Tuesday, January 19 at Jordan Hall in Boston may get in touch with J. F. Joyce '32 at Eliot F33 before next Thursday. Tickets for the Ben Greet plays, which are being sponsored by the Harvard Dramatic Club, are on sale at the "Coop" and Jordan Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ben Greet Plays | 1/8/1932 | See Source »

...both of Salt Lake City, but last week no details were available on how they proposed to do their financing. The proposed Denver Pacific, it was stated, would follow the Colorado River Valley through Glenwood Springs, Rifle, Palisade and Grand Junction, would cross Utah, passing through Moab, and would touch San Bernardino, Calif. New territory would be opened, said the company's sponsors; the route from Denver to the sea would be shortened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Denver to the Sea? | 1/4/1932 | See Source »

Here the authors put in what the producers perhaps thought was a touch original enough to warrant a $300,000 investment. The husband is unable to solve the situation. He goes back to his ship, leaving Dorothy Mackaill to select her own alternative. Safe in Hell is crude, trite, sporadically exciting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 28, 1931 | 12/28/1931 | See Source »

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