Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest picture of 1937. It is far from great; although they may strike American audiences as novel, the trick plot and twisted cynicism are old stuff on the European screen. But Julien Duvivier, master of French directors--he has made better films than this--has given "Un Carnet" the touch of the artist, which combines with competent acting and force photography to make the picture thoroughly worthwhile...
...Harvard College began with the gift of a library. Our gratitude to John Harvard for his gift is mingled with regret that we cannot see the books he read, and by handling them imagine ourselves in actual touch with him. His little library of two hundred and sixty volumes, large for the time and place, has been succeeded by one of the greatest collections of printed books in the world. Today the princely gift of another lover of learning, in loving memory of a young scholar of our own time, too soon and too tragically taken from us, makes...
...granted a postponement until matinée time. When Miss Brice showed up, she sat next to her estranged husband Billy Rose, gaily chatted with him. On the stand, she was vague, noncommittal. Asked about her first conversation with Plaintiff Allen, she observed: "I think it started as a touch." Asked whether she was in Chicago in 1933 she responded: "I don't know where I was three weeks ago, much less in 1933." Before the afternoon was over Miss Brice had slyly played her hole card. When she was asked what commission is usually paid to an agent...
...that during the past fiscal year it paid $75,641.18 in 77 bonuses to people who tattled on tax evaders. Authorized by law to pay informers up to 10% of the amount recovered, the Revenue Bureau makes it relatively easy for a would-be tattler. He merely gets in touch with Internal Revenue field agents or directly with the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in Washington, reports that someone has skimped in his tax report. If the evidence seems reasonable, field agents inspect questionable records, interview the suspected offender, notify the proper tax division (income, estate, gift, etc.). When a suspect...
Justice Reed referred to the undergraduate enterprise as the best way the college undergraduate can keep himself in touch with current topics of national importance." He stressed the significance of obtaining this information concerning politics, economics and foreign affairs in "a first-hand manner," rather than "through textbooks and periodicals which are often out of date before reaching the hands of the public...