Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish to verify this I believe you could do so by getting in touch with the President's secretary...
Superbly gifted with the common touch, as an editorial writer Mr. Brisbane created in his millions of published words a monument more remarkable for its smooth flow and clarity than for depth or originality of thought. An example of Brisbane's writing at its best: "To many fear of death is worse than death. . . . Death is soon over, fear is dreadful and prolonged agony. . . . Crillon, greatest fighter of them all, laid out in death, was found to have wounds on every inch of his body in front, not a scar on his back. Of him it could be said...
...French officer, leaves the tropics to take her two children to the ancestral home of the Séverins in northern France. The most sensible character in the story, Renée nevertheless has more than a little of the mysterious in her makeup: an undisclosed past, a touch of African blood in her veins, strange intuitions, dark, puzzling eyes. She is a rock of common sense compared to her dreamy husband, Captain Pierre Séverin, who mutters ominously that she must pay no attention to what his parents say against him, dreads her leaving, but seems so helpless...
That's the story." Canberra, the Capital of Australia: Devout Catholic Prime Minister Joseph Aloysius Lyons convenes an emergency session of the Australian Parliament for this week and keeps in continuous touch with Stanley Baldwin by short-wave radio...
...second half was played under flood lights. In a cold, steady rain, the game remained partially concealed from 18,000 spectators by a cloud of steam arising from the players' bodies. When the lights went off and the mist cleared, Boston had won, 14-to-0, with one touch down on Donald Irwin's line plunge climaxing a 38-yd. march, one on Cliff Battles...