Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carries the load of running G.M. with remarkable ease. He still dresses with a touch of the dandy. In his tie, he usually wears a pearl stick pin. A silk handkerchief always cascades from his breast pocket. Usually he gets to his office about 9:30 a.m., goes through his business day in a lope. In winter, he drives from his 14-room apartment on Fifth Avenue; in summer he takes the train into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station from his 25 acres near Great Neck, L.I., rides the subway to his office...
...John Wesley Hyatt, who had invented celluloid, was trying to make a go of a new bearing, with little success. When the company was about to go on the rocks, Sloan Sr. bought a controlling interest in it, put in his son to run it. For months, it was touch & go whether the company would continue...
...taunted them over his radio as he roared in for kills. They gave him special treatment. Last week, after Commander Harold E. Stassen greeted him aboard a U.S. destroyer transport, he told about it: "The first ten days were the hardest. They wouldn't let anybody touch me to help me. Every day they blindfolded me and threw me in a truck to take me into town, then questioned me all day. They would make me walk on my bad leg, and shove me with a rifle butt to make sure I did. After ten days I was getting...
Oldtime Vienna correspondents knew sharp-featured George Eric Rowe Gedye (rhymes with steady) as a cool little Englishman, always reserved and distantly polite, who could write with startling passion of his love (Austria) and his hate (the Nazis). Last week they caught the Gedye touch in London Daily Herald pieces pleading that unless the Allies acted, Vienna would starve within 30 days...
...difficulty is making a film which will be equally intelligible to a first-grade city kid in Manhattan and a farm boy in Opportunity, Wash. A more redoubtable objection comes from teachers who believe that films are just another devil's device to take away the personal touch in education...