Word: touche
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Still trying to get a light touch into the interview, amiable Secretary Morgenthau suggested, "how about counterfeit...
...Muscle Shoals. But during the 1920'$ the times were out of joint for insurgents and Mr. Norris was changing. The drooping mustache with which he went to Congress became short and bristling, then disappeared entirely. His fighting spirit gave way to an air of disillusionment and a touch of humor...
...delightful and cutting in his examination of whether America possesses a culture. This hundred page introduction is thoroughly worth the price of admission. Seizing upon quotation after quotation from the writings of expatriated aesthetes, intellectual dilettantes, and sycophantic snobs, Mr. Seldes revels in defending American culture. With a deft touch, which reveals Selders'' abilities as a social critic if not as an economic theorist, he hurls the vaporings of the effects back into their very teeth. American culture, like American political psychology, is boisterous, unashamed, and preeminently honest even about its faults. In this section of his book, Mr. Seldes...
...mirth as lines of clever comment could be. While Mr. Cohan's horse sense and homely goodness are well-calculated to captivate the middle-aged security-lovers in audience and play, it is not so easy to understand their fabulous effects over pretty young things. Can it be a touch of personal vanity that makes him have the lovely girls in his shows fall desperately in love with him? His money was explanation enough in "Dear Old Daddy", but his love for Tennyson sounds a little weak in the current piece. But the charms of Mr. Cohan's personality, such...
...running feet. ... I begin to be afraid. I start to walk faster. . . . When I reach the corner, I find the street still stretches before me, deserted, straight. I keep going at top speed. . . . The sound of running feet behind me comes nearer and nearer, I know a hand will touch me in a moment-then I wake...