Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Teatime Touch. With the benign air of the family's favorite aunt, florid, white-haired Party Chairman Lord Woolton rose on the flower-lined platform to announce good news. Conservative membership had risen from 1,200,000 to 2,250,000 from December 1947 to June 1948. Recent public opinion polls had shown that the Tories were ahead. But the delegates realized that they were still far from home. Said one: "The tide is turning. We must harness it to our projects." Said another: "But what are our projects...
...Baldwin Touch. The Conservatives denounced controls and praised free enterprise, but they rarely descended from generalities. Arguing about denationalization of already nationalized industries, one speaker brushed off a tough problem with oldtime Tory nonchalance: "If I don't like my eggs scrambled, I'll throw them away and prepare another dish to my choice." That was an unfortunate simile; few Britons these days have any eggs to throw away...
...been graced by exotically perfumed ladies, gowned as for a royal drawing room. This year, along the wide concrete promenade outside the conference hall, cheaply dressed men & women ambled with the awkward gait of country people unaccustomed to their Sunday suits. But the Conservatives still lacked the common touch. Even ordinary delegates spoke of "they" rather than "we" when they referred to the workers or the "poorer classes...
...Uncommon Touch. The uncommon touch was most grandly exemplified by Winston Churchill, who on the conference's last day made the kind of stirring speech that only he can make. Winnie arrived at Llandudno's Grand Hotel accompanied by Mrs. Churchill and his chocolate-brown poodle, Rufus. The entire hotel staff was lined up to welcome him. "God bless you, sir," a waitress cried as he passed...
...Montel had friends in high places in France; before long they were in touch with their friends in high places in Quebec, in Ottawa and in the Roman Catholic hierarchy. To save Montel from being returned to France and retried on collaboration charges, the Canadian friends built a little fire under the federal cabinet. Aware that Montel's deportation might set off a political uproar in Quebec, where, as in the case of De Bernonville, the collaborator could be portrayed as a victim of anticlerical Communists in postwar France, the federal cabinet decided to follow Bre'r Rabbit...