Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Touch. But all his life he had walked a financial tightrope. He had tried to engineer a pool to raise the price of Devoe & Raynolds common stock in 1926, had gone resoundingly broke to the tune of $3,000,000. He had piled venture on venture, money on money. In the '30s, he had formed a working partnership with Joseph Watkins, a cultivated, gracious man, like Brooks a native of Minnesota, a Harvard graduate, and a financier. They worked together, dined together, and made money together. Then Brooks seemed to lose his touch. Watkins was forced to supply more...
...Hail V.V.S.L!" Almost since anyone can remember, Juliana's sturdy hands have been encased in spotless white gloves; yet they have never lost what only few royal hands dare possess-the common touch. Wilhelmina grew up in solitude, and did her best to spare her daughter that chilling ordeal. Instead of skating by herself on a guarded rink, Juliana did her skating with other kids. At 18, she entered Leiden University. She was a popular and adequate student, if not brilliant. Her judgment showed a Dutch caution that sometimes bordered on ludicrous understatement. Once she read a book...
...Touch of Greatness. Juliana on one occasion achieved a touch of greatness. In 1940, fleeing the Nazis, she went to Canada while her mother and husband remained in Britain. For the first time in her life she was on her own. She went to a microphone and spoke to the Canadian and American people, a simple woman, a mother, and unmistakably a princess. "Please do not regard me as too much of a stranger," she said. "But you may not know very much about me, so I had better tell you who I am. My name is Juliana ..." Then...
Last week, the liberal Manchester Guardian emitted a suspicious humph: "Putting all this nonsense together, it looks as though Lord Beaverbrook is trying by his own peculiar methods to help the Tory overtures for a Liberal-Conservative alliance . . . Lord Beaverbrook is losing touch...
...from another gamesman, instead of at his nanny's knee. Students of the British character may challenge this assertion. He was playing a match of tennis doubles against two athletic young men, Smith and Brown. Potter and his partner, the hardened metaphysician C.E.M. Joad, could scarcely touch the first two cannon balls served to them by Smith, and only by accident did the third one hit Joad's racket, rebounding wildly across the net and landing twelve feet out of court...