Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...while two cordons of police vainly attempted to keep them back, burst through the police guard, knocked Bert Lytell, one of the cinema-star pallbearers, against a wheel of the hearse, sent the other pallbearers fleeing for safety. This stampede apparently resulted from the desire of numerous women to touch the silver casket of "the girl who was too beautiful to live." Five women fainted, were carried into the funeral parlors to be revived. Men and boys screeched and shouted from treetops, sign boards, roofs...
...great end and real business of living," but many a boy who remembers both Stearns the coach and Stearns the friendly, gentlemanly, informal chapel speaker, will boil that long phrase down to diamond parlance: "There is no short cut from first to third. In the game of life, too, touch second base...
...mien of an old school schoolman, beneath which lie the combined capacities of militant churchman, practical moralist and sagacious promoter. He is a familiar figure not only on his school grounds but in the colleges and offices of his old boys, with whom he keeps in closest touch...
What gives the project its touch of genius is the tender-hearted stipulation that each year the equivalent of $2,000,000 will be given away in lotteries to lucky bondholders. The Bolsheviki crudely killed the capitalists; the French socialists propose to tax their moneyed classes unmercifully; Pangalos gives the Greek tax-payer a mathematical chance. In spite of the snipping of notes, the snapping of jaws will be lessened by the hope of luck...
...conceal his thoughts," had been well illustrated. Premier Bethlen obviously found it impossible to risk pinning the blame for the plot upon anybody-presumably because the guilty are all so extremely close to the Government. Amid repeated cries of "Resign! You are shielding forgers!" Count Bethlen proceeded merely to touch vaguely upon all the theories so far advanced to account for the crime, and wound up by stating that its "purely criminal aspects" must be left strictly in the hands of the courts, but that he would welcome a Parliamentary investigation into the Government's responsibility. After several days...