Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tycoon Eastman's public gifts all have had a peculiarly personal touch. For example, the London dental dispensary was the result of Mr. Eastman and Dr. Burkhart talking with Sir Albert Levy, English tobacconist, and Lord George Allardice Riddell, newspaperman. Signor Giacomo De Martini. Italian Ambassador at Washington, and Professor Amadeo Perna, foremost Italian dentist and a deputy in the Italian Parliament, interested the Rochester man in the needs of Romans. Two years ago two sons of Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden, Prince Gustaf Adolf and Prince Sigvard, visited Mr. Eastman in Rochester. A few months later...
...that in 1915-16, when the U. S. and Germany were still at peace, the Imperial Government sent over secret agents who committed sabotage throughout the U. S., hired Negroes to infect horses with anthrax germs in New York City, Newport News (Va.), and Baltimore, hired other Negroes to touch off such mighty munitions explosions as New Jersey's famed Black Tom blast...
...date Oct. 8 will bring to secretary generalship of the Fascist Party whom? Though Il Duce's letter did not touch upon this point the Prime Minister soon pronounced Italy's new next-to-most-important name...
Once In A Lifetime. Although George S. Kaufman has rarely written a play all by himself, he has brightened many a theatrical season with shows in whose making he collaborated (June Moon, Beggar on Horseback, Dulcy, Merton Of The Movies). With Moss Hart the whimsically insane Kaufman touch has surpassed itself in producing Once In A Lifetime, a merciless, hilariously funny lampoon on Hollywood and the cerebral content of its creatures. The only possible adverse criticism of the play might come from spectators for the near savagery of some of the blows which Mr. Kaufman deals to cinema folk with...
...Touch football in the Business and Law Schools starts October 13, and in the fraternities on October 20. The touch football champions of the Freshman Halls will play off in an elimination with the winning fraternity and graduate school teams for the intra-mural championship. The winners will also receive medals...