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Word: touche (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curio-Seeking Gold Coaster Hunts Dwarf Human Head | 5/4/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Working Class | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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