Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mayers promptly sent the Captain $200, asked him to get leave, come East and fix Anna. They also sent the number of a local telephone booth where the doctor could get in touch with them (the Mayers have no phone...
Honest Injun, it's about time somebody told him that these situation comedies without situation and without comedy are getting on audiences' nerves. Deanna Durban is a very nice kid who once had a very beautiful soprano voice, but the voice has either lost some of its touch or Deanna has just become very boring. At any rate, she isn't cute. And, to help matters, she kisses like Shirley Temple...
...unique touch has been added by the choreography of Director Glauber, who will take charge of an original sequence of modern dancing. The original sequence will range from operetta to live, and the production will be made professional by Cpl. Michael Fedorchack...
...railroads have made almost no use of electronics. "Every ship and every plane," says Caldwell, "is in constant touch with the rest of the world by radio - but every railroad train crew is utterly isolated while in motion." To stop another train, trainmen still follow the "archaic practice" of sending a brakeman up the track with a lantern or flag...
Faddists of the primitive were fascinated. For Miss Willson's paintings (of subjects like General Washington on Horse, The Prodigal Son Receiving His Patrimony, Riotous Living, Henry and His Pet Goat, Lovers) revealed a forthright, uninhibited graphic touch as clear and gay as sunlight. Typical was General Washington, decorative, naive, fantastic. General and horse were suspended in air, unpropped by Delaware ice cakes or the neoclassic columns of Mount Vernon. The plume on the General's tricorne hat looked like a Christmas tree. Though utterly alone, the Father of His Country drew rein and fired his pistol...