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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goldleaf bathroom, ate in a white-and-silver dining room at a glass-topped table, relaxed in a game room with a miniature pool table flanked by a rolling bar. Eighteen years ago Ed had been a Pullman-car porter. Now he had the golden touch. Would it work on the kidnapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: The Emperor Jones | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

With Harlow Shapley, Paine professor of Astronomy, as its principle catalyst, Boston's "Salute to the Atomic Age" flared up in the Hotel Bradford ballroom last night when Martin Deutsch, professor at M.I.T. exploded a few nuclei to add a realistic touch to the proceedings. Featured on the program besides Deutsch and Shapley were Rear Admiral H.G. Bowen, Rev. Edward Conway, and Louis Ridenour, professor at M.I.T...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Exploding Atoms Demonstrated As Shapley Presides at Show | 5/21/1946 | See Source »

Nurnberg's impresarios had used simpler furnishings, relied on the majesty of the concept to set the tone. The German production had a touch of Wagner - elaborate vaunting of guilt, protestations of heroic innocence. Tokyo's had the flavor of Gilbert & Sullivan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Road Show | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...spring practice session revealed little that made Coach Dick Harlow stand up and take notice. A slight touch of brilliance where it wasn't expected was shown, however, by Gibby Warren and Dave Farrell, both of whom were performing in the backfield...

Author: By Wallace I. Green, | Title: Football Fanatics Face Fallow Fall, Foresees Harlow | 5/16/1946 | See Source »

...finishing touch, speaking of Frederic Franklin's crippling absence from "L'Apres-midi d'un Fanne," does J.A.L. realize that Franklin has never danced the role in his life, and according to him on last Saturday, he never expects to, either? If J.A.L. followed the ballet a little more closely, he wouldn't leave such large pitholes for himself. Enamo Tellab...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 5/14/1946 | See Source »

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