Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story ended with a touch that must have caused the real Zuleika's knights to roll over in their watery grave. It turned out that some voters had totally misunderstood the poll's purpose. Fifteen percent had thought they were voting for the girl they would most like to jump into the river with, and 10% thought they were choosing the girl they most wanted to throw...
...usual, DeMille twists history until Clio cries uncle. The Third Crusade was a chiefly political adventure which set one-half of the world against the other; under DeMille's pseudo-Homeric touch the story shapes up as a sort of Puppetoon Iliad, chiefly concerned with regal wrangles over a medieval beauty (Miss Young...
...graduating seniors who may wish to get in touch with the Harvard Club in their own locality, the following directory has been compiled by the recently elected president of the Associated Harvard Clubs, William M. Akin...
...still other embarrassing facts. Eaton and his lawyers had been very busy on the long-distance telephone in the week before the suit was filed. SEC's check on their calls showed that Eaton's lawyers had been in frequent touch with Stockholder Masterson, a Philadelphia attorney, and the Detroit lawyer who filed the suit for him. SEC found all this hard to square with Eaton's previous testimony. It plans to call him back and see what...
...love with his young stepmother. His sense of honor is strong enough to poison his love, but not as strong as the love itself. The young wife (Lisbeth Movin) is in the worst predicament of the three; though she suffers agonies of desire, neither conscience nor pity can touch her. The others are merely damaged; she is a lost soul, dying before the spectators' eyes...