Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress is likely to adjourn in June with little else accomplished. Old Guard leadership is shattered. Where the President stands on tariff rates is anybody's guess. The House has lost interest in piling up legislation it knows the Senate can never touch...
...possibilities of the talking movie are being overrated, in my opinion", he continued, "for I have found in my teaching experience that the most important element in teaching is the personal touch of the instructor...
...problems of the world. Nothing could be more healthy, more stimulating, or more worthwhile. Unfortunately the difficulties confronting such a Utopian organization are tremendous. The various groups do not want to meet each other regularly. Support of the forum by one clique would immediately give it a touch of the plague in the eyes of the other sects...
...which has made possible the construction of the University's first-class "swimmery" and indoor athletic plant. When Mr. Bingham reached Los Angeles an unsigned letter in hand-writing was delivered at his hotel room. The note merely stated that if he wished to get in touch with Mickey Riley (the noted Olympic diver whom Alumnus Aquaticus wished to have present at the dedication of the pool) he would be able to do so. Riley accepted the invitation as he will appear in Chicago at the N. A. A. U. championships the week after the Cambridge meet. But Mr. Bingham...
...Appalling to some is the mere thought of the number of Senatorial voices, otherwise forgotten, which Reporter Shuey may recollect in his dreams. Even in waking moments, he recalls the ponderous thunder of Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, the swift clipped words of James Paul Clarke of Arkansas "who could touch 210 a minute," the bitter snarl of Marion Butler of North Carolina...