Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poor family on a lonely farm in the Red River County of North Texas, "Jack" Garner has come far but changed little. He is, as he likes to repeat, a man of the common people. As a youngster, he was puny. He got little or no formal education. A touch of tuberculosis sent him down to the hilly ranges of South Texas where it is higher, drier. There he punched cows, hunted, fished, slept under the stars. Outdoor life brought him a robust, ruddy-cheeked vitality he has never lost. Nights he began reading law, at 21 was admitted...
...Scullin's foe & predecessor, former Nationalist Premier Stanley Melbourne Bruce, seemed flabbergasted by the suddenness of the Government's fall. Unable to get back to Australia in time for the General Election (which Mr. Scullin promptly announced to take place Dec. 19), Mr. Bruce frantically kept in touch with friends in Australia who organized a "Committee of 100" to try to win him a seat in Flinders, Victoria...
When he uses a Greek idea as a clue to his own environment, his suggestions are not the abstractions of a doctrinaire philosophy out of touch with its fellow men. They represent in the students' own mind the reflections of philosophy genius on a society which was itself a work of genius, a society whose depths had been lit to their furthest reaches by fishes of poetic fire. All this background of the philosophy has been made accessible to the student...
Miss Foster and Mr. Glendenning perform this very light comedy with a very light, expert touch. A Widow in Green, however, is not what Critic John Mason Brown would call an adventure in theatre-going...
...Saturday Review of Literature, The Colophon, But the booklover and the average reader may be completely different persons. To serve the varied interests of those who patronize bookstores a new monthly magazine appeared last week called Gentle Reader, "a single periodical that would keep [the average reader] completely in touch with the world of books and also present to him within the same covers all the reasonable diversions of modern life...