Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leading position, and then it was by Pilot James H. Smart flying another Ford, which finished second. Smart nearly caught up with Russell when the leader became lost over the mountains of Kentucky and failed to find Middlesboro. Later Russell had to fly back from Knoxville, Tenn., and touch at Middlesboro to escape heavy penalties. Sensation of the meet was the youngster Eddie Schneider, 19, who fell into last place by a forced landing of his Cessna and a three-day delay in Kentucky, then fought his way back to finish third, ahead of all other light planes...
Billy Burke and George Von Elm. tired after their play-off for the U. S. Open, were there to watch. Most closely they watched one-eyed Tommy Armour. British Open Champion, who was defending his next-best title; Walter Hagen. who recently recovered his putting touch and promised his friends to win at least one important championship this year; Percy Alliss, a plump British professional attached to a club at Wannsee, near Berlin, where Professor Albert Einstein goes sail-boating; elegantly skinny Johnny Farrell; Wiffy Cox, the only pro who played the new U. S. "big ball" (and shot...
...with the other hand trying to collect a good income tax out of the fruits of his felonies. . . . To top it off, Capone pleads guilty both ways; so while Mr. Mitchell edges him up to the jail, Mr. Mellon halts him at the door to make a thrifty touch for the Capone liquor income tax. Capone may get a little of what is coming to him for his curious code of ethics, but is Uncle Sam's code of ethics any less peculiar than Capone...
Presumably referring to Pope Pius, the Premier continued "I will not admit that anybody, absolutely not anybody, shall touch in any way that which belongs to the state. . . . The child, as soon as he is old enough to learn, belongs to the state alone. No sharing is possible. Maybe this will be judged Spartan doctrine carried to an extreme. One can not deny, however, that it is clear. We are in process of reconstructing Italy?a great Italy! It is a colossal task such as I do not believe has often been tried. The antique city [of Rome]has nothing...
...cannot see what they engaged me for. . . . Twice during the year they brought completed scenarios of other people's stories to me and asked me to do some dialog. Fifteen or sixteen people had tinkered with those stories. The dialog was quite adequate. All I did was touch it up here and there. . . . They were extremely nice to me, but I feel as if I have cheated them. . . . It's all so unbelievable...