Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touch briefly on William Morgan, and his attempted "exposure" of Masonic secrets ... In the old Batavia cemetery . . . stands a tall shaft surmounted by the figure of a man. This monument was erected in 1880 by the National Christian Association, a group opposed to all forms of secret societies. An inscription at the base of the monument states that it was erected to William Morgan "by volunteer contributions from over 2,000 persons residing in Canada, Ontario, and 26 of the United States and territories ... He was abducted from near this spot in the year 1826 by Free Masons and murdered...
Hattori sometimes writes his own lyrics, but often leaves the chore to others, who have that strange poetic touch which knocks the Japanese for a loop, but leaves a Westerner vaguely feeling as if someone has been beating him over the head with a chrysanthemum petal. The lyrics to Hattori's hit of the week, Aoi Sammyaku...
...embroiled in endless quarrels with his fellow Frenchmen, finally retired to an isolated island of the Marquesa group. There he hoped "that the completely savage atmosphere and solitude will, before I die, inspire me with a new fire of enthusiasm which will renew my imagination and put the finishing touch to my talent...
There is hardly a science that has not felt the touch of AEC. The commission is working on new alloys and other materials for the atomic age. It is deep in cancer research. Its program of making and distributing isotopes, both radioactive and stable, has worked a genuine revolution in U.S. science...
Director Henry Koster has told this gentle, humorous story with taste and a light touch. Best comedy bit: as the two nuns whiz through Manhattan in a borrowed jeep, Sister Margaret, the superbly efficient driver, explains to Sister Scholastica : "You'll notice, Sister, that I must signal to make a turn. It is the law." So saying, she makes a snappy U turn smack in the middle of Fifth Avenue, and parks on the curb in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral...