Word: touche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selected for a sensitive palate and delicate taste, would not only provide an important mechanical function, that of keeping bad milk off the tables, but would add to the kitchen that human element which is so essential a part of any large food purveying establishment. It is just this touch of individuality that gives world famous restaurants their reputations. Oscar of the Waldorf is no mere automaton, but an artist who knows the difference between curds and whey...
...hasty-pudding and beer rocked Harvard to her foundations, to the clanking of the guillotine in the Lowell House courtyard last spring, it has been axiomatic that this college battles as well as travels on its stomach. The mechanical men of Mr. Westcott's organization lack the human touch, and the call for an endowed chair in food tasting grows ever louder. Such a bequest would be a noble contribution for Harvard's Anniversary year...
...very understandably insists that she come along with him to the Dolomites. But she can shake with active fury, as when she finds a letter that her lover-now husband-thought he had destroyed. The pathetic death of her child is largely the product of a deft, gentle touch in the writing. But it would never to so simply affecting if it were not for the piteous way in which the heroine, after having been told by the hospital that her baby is dead, and having been spurned by her distracted husband, comes back to the wards with the threat...
...that moment last week Adolf Hitler dashing about Germany delivering was election speeches. He was quite out of touch with the experienced German diplomats of the Wilhelmstrasse whose shrewd advice in foreign policy he so often takes. Therefore the rough Realmleader's natural reaction to the Eden "smoothie" was to order von Hoesch to tell Britain in effect to go to hell. Ran the official Hitler text: "The German Government cannot enter into a discussion with regard to lasting or provisional limitation of German sovereignty in the Rhineland territory...
...that the French may attack the English by surprise, thus starting the invaders out of the Kingdom and Joan on her way to the fires of martyrdom. As for peerless Actress Cornell, spectators found her full of the youthful fire that danced around her Juliet, approved the added touch of honest rusticity which brought the full flush of credibility to her Joan...