Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berillon muttered, by hypnotism he could cure "almost anything." Could he cure a drunkard that way? Replied Berillon: "I treated an alcoholic only once. I put him to sleep and in his trance made him hold up his right hand and swear never again to use it to touch a glass containing alcohol...
...Prime Minister. A few times, William Lyon Mackenzie King bundled himself up and went out for a short walk along the shore or tackled the piney woods bordering the golf course. But mostly he stayed close to his sixth-floor suite in the Cavalier Hotel, in constant touch by telephone with Ottawa...
Leaping to a telephone, the alert photographer of the Boston Record quickly got in touch with the fire department. But when the smoke eaters arrived thirty minutes later they were told that it should have been the department of sanitation...
Faced with an economic situation showing an increasing tendency to mature into the boom-bust cycle that has always threatened American business, the persons most in touch with events, the business community, have shown little indication that they are willing to deal with the problem in a manner inclined to insure confidence in the future prosperty of the nation. Although a few concerns--Ford, International Harvester, Chrysler to name some--have cut their prices, most have refused to talk about any slashes in their goods until wage negotiations have been completed, and they have swallowed the union's annual...
...bleats about the social lacks of Harvard people might titillate the back country, but otherwise "George Apley" is a capsule version of a theme that requires more careful, lengthier treatment. A last glowing touch in achieved by Peggy Cummins, who plays the debutante Miss Apley aided by an Irish brogue that doesn't often grace Louisburg Square...