Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pressure. "I was ordered to stand facing the wall upright at a distance which allowed me to touch the wall with two fingers of my outstretched arms. Then to step back some twelve inches, keep my heels touching the floor, and maintain balance only with the contact of one finger on each hand. And while standing so, the interrogation continued ... I recall that the muscles on my legs and shoulders began to get cramped and to tremble, that my two fingers began to bend down under the pressure, to get red all over and to ache, I remember that...
...Love Me Tonight" has a slight edge on its companion piece in entertainment value as well as in the amount of impressive talent it displays. This story of a tailor who successfully woos a princess has the light directorial touch of Rouben Mamoulian and some superb Rodgers and Hart songs, including "Isn't it Romantic," "Mimi," and the immortal "Lover." C. Aubrey Smith and Myrna Loy are featured players, along with Charlie Ruggles as a flat broke viscount and Charlie Butterworth, that incomparable old-school comedian, as Chevalier's and eyed rival for Miss MacDonald's hand. "One Hour With...
...touch of gout caused him to limp a bit as he climbed aboard the train, but otherwise, as far as anyone could remember later, Fish Karpe seemed his usual relaxed and cheerful self...
...Touch and Go. Bright, campus-born topical revue, not always polished but consistently pert (TIME...
...body in a closet. "Why . . . it's as easy as A B C," he assures the trembling murderer. "You get a rope and make a noose, and you put it . . . round his neck . . . And then you hang him up on a nail or something. He mustn't touch the ground, of course . . . They'll say he hanged himself, don't you see?" And in two ticks the corpse is dangling from the nail and the horrified murderer is running away through the dark yard, pursued by a polite cry of, "I say! mind that ditch there...