Word: touche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ball swings from a cable at the end of a 100-ft. boom, and Big Jim, by deftly whirling his crane cab and boom, can send the ball crashing into a target with bull's-eye accuracy. Many a major Eastern wrecking project has had an Allit touch...
...Common Touch. But it is by his alternately nagging and praising daily bulletins that Christiansen puts his mark on the Ex-Press. Excerpts: "Such a coverage! Such splendour! Such magnificence! From Newell Rogers in Washington to Ralph Campion in Cock Fosters the heart of this paper beats strongly. . . . [But] it hurts when we miss the news.. . . The headline WIFE SITS ON TAIL OF PLANE in the Daily Mail is a better headline than [our] HOLIDAY PLANE IN SEA. . . . Why does the phrase The British taxpayer must foot the bill' appear? . . . Why not 'The taxpayer pays...
Like the masses who buy his paper, Christiansen enjoys soccer matches, boxing and dog racing. He berates his Fleet Street friends for their lack of the common touch. Says he: "You don't like these people, do you? You're out of touch with the common people." But in politics Christiansen walks the Beaverbrook line. The Express attacks the Labor Government and considers the American loan a disastrous mistake. (Prodding mercilessly away in the background is the wily, exacting Beaver. Says he: "So you want to know what makes Sammy [Christiansen] run, eh? Well, I do.") One reader...
...when the International Student Association organized to welcome and assist the until then unheeded foreign students studying in the vicinity. Lawrence Mead and his wife, who had spent many years in China and understood the problems of life in a new land, became directors and added the humanistic touch that now flows through all personal interrelations at the Center. In addition to aiding new arrivals by informing them on such matters as the perfect propriety of American girls who date without chaperons, the Meads also lend guidance on problems that might cause an experienced DP advisor to blanch...
Albert E. Marre 1L, member of the Screen Writers Guild, sighs wearily when asked whether Hollywood is a nest of Communists, as the House Un-American Affairs Committee proclaims. "You're nobody in Hollywood unless you have money," he says with a touch of cynicism, "and if you have money you're not a Communist...