Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Storm. Tomorrow was bound to be stormier. The platform still had to be voted on. The party's worried leaders had done their best to produce something which, if it failed to please everyone, at least would not rile anyone very much. They had kept in touch with Harry Truman, whose cautious advice had been to keep the specific points of his so-called "civil rights" program out of the platform...
...prepare for the next day's schoolwork, help her sister with the housework, find time to visit the parents of problem students. She rarely sees a movie, does practically no reading beyond what is required for her class work, and is annoyed to find herself slipping out of touch with the news. She climbs into bed each night exhausted...
...been urged to. Said she: "I have never written about myself. I won't write about myself, and that decides it." But she let somebody else do it: she handed her papers and correspondence over to British Journalist Philip Whitwell Wilson, with whom she had been in close touch for some 20 years. Published this week is Author Wilson's General Evangeline Booth (Scribner; $3.50)-a warm and folksy paean of praise for a remarkable woman...
...Healing Touch. Dr. Fernald uses every standard psychological trick in the book to gain the confidence of her "patients." But more important, she really likes children. Young students, warped by years of being called "dumb," are greeted by a warm and sympathetic smile, a gentle, unhurried approach and the flattery of being talked to as equals. She has the same easy way with animals. There is always at least one dog and one cat in her Beverly Hills home, and she frequently tries to persuade students in her undergraduate psychology classes to find homes for the strays she picks...
...also important. Mlle. Mala thinks it is too bad that most men shy away from makeup. Women need a dark foundation to disguise "blotches and blemishes," plenty of shadow for double chins, two different shades of brown powder on the cheekbones, non-running mascara on the eyelids, a touch of eyebrow pencil. Lipstick depends on lighting: Mlle. Mala wore blue on her first TV appearance, last week had switched to brown...