Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...16th-Century Palais de Justice, where she testified, is famed for its courtyard columns, the work of Sculptor Francois Borset. No two are alike. Almost as numerous as the famous columns, just as various, executed with the same artistic touch, were the crimes charged against Marie...
...common people whom God loved and of whom He made so many read the earthy tabloid produced in this building. Every News executive knows that the inscription is not an empty slogan, for the News has profited and grown because of the publisher's uncommonly sensitive common touch. Its blunt advice to advertisers: Tell it to Sweeney-the Stuyvesants will understand...
...will fight this thing to the end," asserted the student, and promptly got in touch with Apted, giving him the letter and reluctantly parting with the photograph. The colonel, who has been kept busy of late tracking down the leader of the blackmail racker centering around the Yard, quickly seized what...
Nearest thing in the world to the architecture of ancient Egypt is the clean-sloping, massive 20th-century dam. Nearest thing to Egyptian stone-carving is the work of modern sculptors who feel that if they could surpass its life-loaded repose they would touch the summit of their art. Appreciation of such forms is not purely abstract. Through the imaginations of writers as diverse as Emil Ludwig and Thomas Mann, the civilized life of the Nile has begun to intrigue common thought as Classic Greece intrigued it for centuries. In Never to Die, a neat, lucid book on Egyptian...
...things that turn Henry Ormandy into a little imperialist Hamlet are religious neurosis and a lofty recruiting speech by Cecil Rhodes. The foils to Henry's neurosis are women, whom he professes to despise, and South African natives, whom he professes to like. Refusing to touch native women out of religious scruple, he (finally) admits (in torment) that he merely cringes at black skin. As regards white women, he claims to follow the footsteps of St. Paul. But when, on a holy pilgrimage to Rome, he is easily seduced by a sophisticated adventuress, he admits he is more pained...