Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passion for privacy is one of the things that has made him unpopular with gossip-hungry sportwriters and fans. It has also helped conceal an extremely generous nature. On the road he is known to waiters and bellhops as a "buck-tipper" and a soft touch. He divided $1,000 of his 1946 World Series check among the clubhouse helpers. He sends his mother upwards of $7,000 a year, likes to visit shut-in children in hospitals, provided there are no reporters around...
...truth is that Playwright Logan has infused a touch of Yancy Loper into Chekhov, and what is heard at the end is the sound of the ax hacking the heart out of The Cherry Orchard. Yet the real trouble with The Wisteria Trees is not that it falls short of Chekhov, but that on its own terms it is so frequently blurred and limp...
...Reynolds' evidence was not strong enough to convict hyaluronidase. But it was enough to touch off more inquiries in the century's biggest piece of science detection...
...later years, old Adolphus began to spend more time abroad, kept in touch with St. Louis by cable from his luxurious "castle on the Rhine" (cable tolls often ran to more than $100 a day). In 1913, his son August Sr. took over the old family company...
...chanteuse (Micheline Prelle) and buys his own horse to ride. He looks like a cinch to win the Big Race until vengeful Gambler Adler demands that he lose it or pay off with his life. But the jockey's son, whose hero worship has barely survived a touch of disillusionment, is counting on him to win. In this kind of situation, even a cad can work up enough nobility to keep a little boy's heart unbroken...