Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gideons added a realistic touch to 2,000 Bibles which they presented to Chicago's Stevens Hotel-the cover of each book was alcohol-proof...
...successful trifle then, it may easily prove a successful trifle now. If it spends most of its time winking at the audience, if without managing to be a play at all it presumes to offer a play within a play, its suavity saves it. It has that light touch which for so long, with Molnar, proved a Midas touch...
...Jibaro tribe in Ecuador gets a big kick out of decapitating their enemy warriors, Moran explains. As an added touch, they shrink them with hot sand and stones until they stand only a few inches high. "They're really interesting little souvenirs," Moranassures all skeptics...
...people who had heard little of her for years. Still tiny (shoe size: 2½B) and bubbly at 58, she confided to an interviewer the secret of her durability as a star (1909-30): "I didn't force my voice. I had sense enough not to touch the capital, only the income . . ." For the past eleven years she has been living quietly in an ornate Los Angeles mansion with her husband, Singing Teacher Homer Samuels, and plans to move to a new country home near San Diego when it is finished. She has taken up painting. What does...
...minutiae of the therapy, The Cup not only runneth o'er but is several times refilled. Sensational in spots, the play is remarkably dull as a whole. The trouble is that Playwright Paul knows what he is writing about but not how to write about it. His touch is coarse, his method tedious, his tone didactic; the play becomes a kind of Pilgrim's Progress of drink...