Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...analysis: "[Lincoln's] moods never reached to that degree of profundity to justify the diagnosis of insanity. At all times Lincoln remained in touch with reality. His ego never sought refuge in insanity...
...resumed the task. Last week the June issue of Woman's Home Companion appeared with the new type, a light, graceful letter to be named "Woman's Home Companion Old Style & Italic." The designer described it as "a letter with a degree of strength, yet with a touch of femininity." The body of the magazine is in Garamond, also created by Mr. Goudy...
...committee on foreign affairs, took immediate notice of this plea. He reiterated the old but forceful objections to the reparations as placing a burden on Germany without helping the recipients of the payments and as a possible cause of the seriousness and extensiveness of the depression. With a touch of demagoguery but with none the less soundness he pleaded for the reduction of the debts that "ground down into unspeakable misery the working-people of Germany", now further oppressed by their serious business troubles...
...infrequent perusal of the daily press cannot fail to impress upon the average citizen that his country, a world leader in so many lines of endeavor, must at the same time own to preeminence in the rougher arts of hijacking, racketeering, municipal corruption, and homicide. Headlines keep us in touch with a gangster here entering a hospital to recuperate after a brush with a few other thugs, or with another resisting with lead the intrusion of some scores of New York police into his apartment. And the past year has seen an unusually large number of struggles, like those...
...drinking. Loudly he announced: "We won't violate the American Constitution no matter where we go and no matter what the rest do.* Yes, we're Dry! We haven't taken one drink since we left the U. S. and we don't intend to touch alcoholic stimulants while in France...