Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feat. Back in the U. S., she shared her husband's political set-back in 1892 when he was defeated for the vice-presidency. Five years later she went with him to England when he was special ambassador to Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Again, when an-other touch of U. S. swank was needed, the Reids were sent to the coronation of Edward VII. In 1905 President Roosevelt made Whitelaw Reid Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, first-ranking U. S. diplomatic post. In London the Reids were phenomenally popular and achieved a social prestige...
...Alaska. The lines contact those of Canada and Mexico. They are accurate to one part in a million. Last year two Russians visited William Bowie of the Survey for instructions on throwing 30.000 miles of base lines across the U. S. S. R. to Behring Strait, where they will touch the Alaska lines. The work will be done in five years. Then the exact contour of two-thirds of the earth will be known and the suburban home owner may figure almost precisely how far his plot is from the railroad station and the North Star...
...under her bed in the same state in which Adam concealed himself from God in the Garden of Eden, because her father, returning home unexpectedly, insisted on talking to her through the half open door of his room while he himself was undressing. Ordinarily, with me at least, a touch of danger intensifies desire." Many a personage has taken Poet Viereck seriously. The late James Gibbons Huneker said of his poems that they were "shot through with the splendors of Heine, Swinburne and Keats;" Theodore Roosevelt admired them, though they aroused his "atavistic Puritanism." But even those who like...
...with wounds, decorations and a reputation among radicals because he had refused to execute three soldiers. In the turmoil that rocked Vienna after the War Ferdinand moved as a kind of passive Bohemian, passive revolutionary. A monastic soul, he lived among orgiasts and was never shaken; love failed to touch him. His best and only friend, a Jew, became a religious maniac and graduated to an asylum. When Ferdinand went to see Nurse Barbara for the last time he was horrified that she should be so old. He ran away from her, went to seek the only society...
...Model Assembly, which has grown with each annual meeting, will convene next spring on March 4 and 5 at Brown University, Providence. Until then, the council will keep in touch through frequent bulletins, which will be sent to all the colleges participating in the New England Model Assembly...