Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Priest. Into the convention hall next morning strode another burly divine, not by a stage entrance but by the front door. As he marched up the long aisle Townsendites shrilled and roared. Some even leaned out to touch his coat as he passed. Last fortnight Rome buzzed with gossip of a telephone call which Detroit's Father Charles E. Coughlin had made to the Vatican, belatedly asking permission to take part in the U. S. Presidential campaign. For a month the Political Priest had had a candidate in the field-North Dakota's Representative William Lemke...
...unsuccessful, the limb dies, according to Heart Specialist Sir Thomas Lewis, in this order: 1) the sense of touch in the fingers, which proceeds up the hand and arm 1½ in. per minute; 2) the kinesthetic sense, by which a person knows how his arm lies in relation to his body; 3) muscular power; 4) sense of pain; 5) sense of temperature; 6) nerves which cause goose flesh...
...years' standing with families in Geneva. But they received wires of praise from Italy's new Press & Propaganda Secretary Odoardo Dino Alfieri for a Fascist escapade at which the London Times looked down its stern nose thus: "Nothing else was wanting to add the last touch of dignity to one side of the contest and to remove the last traces of it upon the other...
Finally the League Council became so embroiled and confused last week that it decided not to touch the Ethiopian question at all, adjourned to await action this week by the League Assembly...
...late great writer Marcel Proust. Implicit in The Tumult & the Shouting is Slocombe's own realization that not only have his captains and kings departed but that their tumult was a weary gibberish, hardly destined to outlive them. Bravely he concludes that they had "a common touch of frustrated nobility ... of genius," that "they are men like no other men who have gone before or who may come here after...