Word: touched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bill is only a peacetime measure, and does not touch the vastly greater problem of medical mobilization for a possible World War III. On that problem, the delegates were confronted with a grim report by a special committee headed by A.M.A.'s president, Dr. Edward L. Bortz of Philadelphia...
...singers in "The Medium" are actors also, with Marie Powers contributing a particularly fine bit as the spiritualist. The staging-by Menotti, too-is unusual, with an cerie touch in the last act that has to be seen. On both these counts the very thought of the Metropolitan doing the opera is foolish, for the necessity of using old costumes and old settings and that unique operatic brand of acting on the huge Met stage would spoil Menotti's work...
...think Rumania is a Communist country, and wonder what I am doing in the Government? Well, I have been Minister in many previous Governments, wealthy since childhood. Whatever I touch turns to gold. I've always had a special liking for women, sport and the luxuries of life...
...Contact With Reality." The greatest of these, and the oldest (53) hand at the game was Adela. The Hearst people had drafted her to give the Overell story the cozy, corny touch she had applied to the Lindbergh and Weyerhaeuser kidnapings, the birth of the Dionne quintuplets, the death of Rudy Valentino. Hearst papers the U.S. over spread her words in big type. Excerpts...
...last week, when he rose from the piano after playing some of his chamber works with a touch that was firm and decisive, he got the biggest ovation given one of his countrymen in Prague since Marshal Konev liberated the city two years ago. The tribute was not so much for the compositions he had played (they were slight pieces) but for his past contribution to music. For half an hour the crowd clapped, cheered and shouted, bringing him back again & again to take nervous, bobbing little bows. Once he stumbled over the dais and almost fell headlong...