Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace negotiations. But the question of war and peace hung mostly on the division within the A. F. of L. itself. In the Executive Council a man's importance depends on the number of votes he can command. Moderate Matthew Woll (who all last week was in touch with C.I.O.'s Moderate Dubinsky) has only 8,700 photo-engravers behind him. Moderate George Harrison has the backing of 135,000 railway clerks. But Lewis' implacable enemies number such men as William ("Big Bill") Hutcheson who alone pays A. F. of L. the dues for 300,000 carpenters...
...pictures appeared only in an oil-and-tempera panel of a prancing, black Percheron stallion painted at the Wisconsin stock show a year ago. A landscape View of Madison painted last spring had an unaccustomed air of old-fashioned dewiness. A still life, Spring Flowers, had an even stranger touch of Renoir. For action subjects the artist had apparently confined himself to football games in Wisconsin's Camp Randall stadium producing a series of sketches and one big canvas, Goal Line Play, which looked like a monument to a lost opportunity...
...years. Circulation teams of women scour the richer byways for more readers. Six field editors, including Bess M. Rowe, who probably knows personally more farm women than anyone else in the U. S., constantly circulate over 100,000 rural miles each year, keeping Managing Editor F. W. Beckman in touch with his readers. A sort of countrified Delineator, the Farmer's Wife carries plenty of fiction, but not by big names. There is lots of advice on how to run a Halloween party, make clothes, improve the appearance of a kerosene lamp...
...Hillyer's couplets represent what might be the effusions of a conscientious disciple of Goldsmith, although enervated by 19th century flatulence, composing on vaguely Popeian themes. Insistent lapses into vulgarity putrefy the poet's whimsical sentimental touch. Concluding an emotional and facetious description of Bartlett Wendell appears this line...
...days later Miss Stovell wrathfully tacked up three pictures of the Duke & Duchess, received world-wide publicity except in Bermuda, where no paper deigned to touch the story. Said she: "I don't know how I had the nerve to chase the Bishop home and demand an explanation...