Word: touched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story wound up with a typical touch. As in crucial days of their ancient history, the Jews started to quarrel among themselves. The issue was, essentially, the same that divided the whole world-the issue of East v. West...
...Kingdom), regardless of the fact that Peck was unknown and unwilling even to make a screen test. David Selznick, who now claims to have recognized Pecks talent from the first, was also in there nibbling (characteristically, Selznick eventually walked away with the lion's share). There is a touch of more than Hollywood's habitual fantasy in these frantic negotiations for the services of a promising, impoverished, idealistic, unknown young stage actor...
...both family man and poet, combining the two archetypal characters that Joyce separated in Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. Mr. Shawnessy, 53, schoolteacher and county scholar, moves through the day as a leading citizen in the local celebrations. At intervals the day's events or reflections, like firecrackers, touch off flashbacks to the significant events of Mr. Shawnessy's life...
Charles A. Lindbergh turned up in Hong Kong on "Pan American Airlines business," gave it a touch of mystery by asking newsmen not to report anything except the bare fact of his arrival...
...President's assistant, who will keep the White House informed on scientific doings. Government agencies concerned with science (from Agriculture to Veterans Administration) will supply one member each to sit on the committee. The principal duties of the committee: to coordinate federal research, recommend new projects, keep in touch with non-Government scientists through their learned societies...