Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Black Robe. He never lost touch with his old friend in the capital. Last week the telephone call from the White House finally came to the commodious New Albany home where Judge Minton sat nursing a broken leg. (He tripped on a stone outside his home.) "Harry told me he was naming me and asked what I thought about it," said the judge. "I told him I thought it was wonderful...
...letter went on & on in that vein. What it boiled down to in the American language was: "Oliver, we're getting along all right with the Americans, but the situation is ticklish and might come unstuck. Go over there and keep a sharp eye on things, keep in touch with the right people, keep selling the good old Empire-and don't let Bertie McCormick bite...
...show called Blues by Bargy appears "at various hours" during the week. Tall, limpid-eyed Singer-Pianist Jeanne Bargy, 27, describes her eight months with CBS more bluntly: "I'm a fillin. Whenever they have an odd quarter-hour or when someone is sick, they get in touch with...
...Jeanne Bargy on television somehow becomes small, sadly romantic and nicely sexy. Her songs (the blues in Blues by Bargy refer more to her voice than her repertory) are plaintive ballads; her delivery and pace are a restful contrast to TV's frequently scratchy and perfervid fare, her touch on the keyboard deft, efficient and unobtrusive...
Texans bragged this week about a triumph of commerce-with a touch of culture. Dallas' Cokesbury Book Store staked out a claim as the biggest in the U.S. It made no difference to Cokesbury that Manhattan's Brentano's and Macy's disputed the claim. With hymn and prayer befitting its ownership by the Methodist Church,* and with typical Texasity, the block-long, five-story Cokesbury opened a three-story addition and plugged away at surpassing its sales of $1,635,000, profits of $140,000 during its last fiscal year...