Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forget it," purred the Woolen lawyer, patting Lawyer Carney's shoulder. Sputtered Mr. Carney: "Don't touch me! Take your hands...
...definitely identified or could be produced. Inasmuch as the state is unable to prove that the corpse was Faulkner's we don't exactly see how the jury could convict Miss Andre. At any rate the dialogue is well written and the play is constructed with a reasonably sure touch. The humor is of the predictable type and not particularly annoying...
...each party-are only four of the numerous pins from which the cradle hangs. On the Democratic side Pin No. 1 is Governor Henry Homer, a lawyer whose enterprise and honesty landed him on the Cook County Probate bench in 1914. There his work put him in touch with many of Chicago's most influential families, who came to esteem him as highly as he was held among his fellow Jews. In 1932 the Roosevelt boom put him in the Governor's mansion at Springfield. But stocky Governor Horner did not find his task easy. Strictly a good...
...panther-man, "this is the most risky, most difficult and most important venture of the campaign. Don't waste a shot. We are carrying all the ammunition we are going to have on this trip. This column must be like an electric live wire. Death to the touch! Truck drivers must learn to keep to the right of the road under pain of severe penalties. . . . ''Britain is a rich country, Italy is a poor country, but the people of poor countries have hard muscles. The only way to explain the action of the English is that they...
...that the water-level at their junction might rise as high as 34 ft.-close to the record set by the disastrous flood of 1907. Twenty-four hours later the junction stood at an all-time high of 48 ft., and in the Golden Triangle a swimmer could not touch bottom...