Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phenomenally successful of any magazine issued before the Civil war was the prim Godey's Lady's Book. On many a U. S. attic shelf, dust-covered copies still remain. Recently a passing decorating fancy has gutted them of their faded fashion plates, which are used to lend a touch of quaintness to boudoir walls, breakfast trays and lampshades...
...staff of the city's Psychiatric Clinic, first as an interne, later as assistant physician. Working among cretins and morons, she undertook to sift out and salvage feeble-minded and backward children. Through patient experimentation she discovered that if the child were given something to twist and touch with its hands, its brain might learn to function responsively. At least it was less restive. Four years later (1898), she made known her preliminary findings to colleagues at the Pedagogical Congress in Turin. Her psychiatric studies and feminist activities brought her national recognition. The same year, aged...
...wears a full dress with the same elaborate nonchalance that he evidences when clad in unpressed tweeds and rumpled coat; canes are permissable on Park Avenue but are decidedly not correct in Harvard Square; he wears spats under no conditions. His hat is rumpled and decadent, giving a touch of elan to an otherwise spotless appearance. The typical specie has a fleet of luxurious motor cars, one for every mood, and a charge account at the leading night clubs in a half-dozen cosmopolitan cities...
...cent of them went the straight and narrow path thenceforth. But Glueck went into the matter in detail. He looked into every corner of the lives of 500 criminals at four stages in their careers, compiling statistics at every turn. Ninety per cent of these men were kept in touch with while located in every part of the United States. In treating the matter, Glueck first compiled elaborate statistics as to the life these men led before they were sent to the Reformatory; next he surveyed their actions while in confinement; then they were watched while out on a parole...
...Consultant on Careers adds the personal touch. Rather than acting in an advisory capacity, the office is to function as a bureau of expert opinion applying a wide experience in personnel work to the problem of the particular student. His choice of work, his educational background and practical experience should have more influence in the final decision. The cooperation of the two employment bureaus, the Senior Questionnaire, and finally this addition of personal and sympathetic interviews should combine to make the position and the occupant coincide to a more satisfactory degree than in the past...