Word: touched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elizabeth wore the Imperial State Crown laden with 3,095 jewels,* as she read the speech written for her by Winston Churchill's ministers. A House of Lords gallery packed with such alert first-nighters as Noel Coward agreed that she did her bit with only the faintest touch of nervousness...
Arturo Toscanini was back in the U.S. last week after five months in Italy, steaming to get back to his NBC Symphony podium. To his extreme annoyance, he came down with a touch of flu, and his doctor told him he would have to postpone his opening concert this week. At 86, the Maestro still hates to miss a curtain...
...Cadillac very faintly suggests The Madwoman of Chaillot: here, too, an old lady tackles and triumphs over hardheaded tycoons; here, too, are aired some of the shadier ways of high finance. But no two plays could be less alike in spirit, nor, for that matter, has Cadillac even a touch of the poetry or wistfulness of a fairy tale. A thing of gags and gadgets, of blackouts, movie shots and the loudspeaker voice of Fred Allen, Cadillac is satire that is always hurrying off into routine farce. Its corporation characters are the merest cardboard...
...First," she began, "aim high in your appeal . . . Get in touch directly . . . with the top industrial giants. You know . . . someone who can take three hours for lunch . . . Now what is that type of employer looking for in a secretary? Shorthand speed? Dependability? Industry? Don't be silly! First and foremost, he's looking for a LOOKER ... Of course, this preoccupation with pulchritude on the part of the employer may not be noble and high-minded . . . But there it is . . . It's sex. You can't fight...
Hollis, Matthows, North, Stonghton, and Weld South will play the semi-final round of freshman intramural touch football on Tuesday. The winners will meet each other the following afternoon for the right to challenge the champion freshman touch team at Yale next Friday...