Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passion v. Prudence" The prospect of the Progressive conference and its in- evitable criticism of the Hoover Adminis-tration gave the G. O. P. a touch of cold shivers. Day before the meeting the Republican National Committee, through its counsel, James Francis Burke, spoke de- fensively as follows: "The American people are already suffering from an overproduction of politics. . . . The whole country is now praying for political relief. So why not give politics a short recess? . . . Everyone must cool off and carry on. We must stop snarling and begin smiling. Sanity will then have more front seats and more front...
...table where there were two fellows and dined with them ... I didn't ask them their names nor they mine. We discussed Homer, Virgil and Milton. Afterwards I felt I had been discussing subjects with which I am none too familiar. I get that way by keeping constantly in touch with administrative matters...
...Briggs, assistant librarian, and for 25 years associated with Mr. Lane, expressed the feelings of the whole library staff when he said: "By one who was in such close touch with him for so long a time, his loss is felt very keenly. He always took a very personal interest in the members of the staff and inspired them to give, their best service...
...system, used at Harvard, of having several assistant deans who have graduated recently enough to be in touch with student opinion, and yet possess the impartial attitude of faculty members seems, to be the best solution of the matter...
...arrested him for setting the Thames on fire. A solid citizen in literature's republic, he is known, liked, admired by other solid citizens. Primarily an essayist, a ponderer, his earnest musings appeal to lovers of quiet English and of quiet English sense (which has in it a touch of the lyrical, a dash of the salty). This book of essays and sketches should cause no fluctuation in Tomlinsons, which should remain steady, safe...