Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...famed U. S. architect, Whitney Warren, who announced that he had recently spent some hours at a luncheon, tete a tete with his friend Clémenceau. Mr. Warren declared roundly that he had never seen M. Clémenceau in better health and spirits or more fully in touch with the current situation in France. The famed whiskers may droop like the tusks of an old walrus, but between them the decisive jaw continues to snap with the fierce pugnacity of a bulldog...
...bloc, but that is because he is not a dirt farmer, but something more like a landed aristocrat. He has no political glad hand, no oratorical or political tricks. As Clinton W. Gilbert describes him: "When he speaks, he talks.common sense in an easy, unemphatic way, with a slight touch of impatience in his voice...
...familiar it all sounds! And there is another interesting touch contributed by Mr. Masterman: "The chief opposition rally has been made by the fundamentalists, who, to counter the lubrications of successful authors, have been enlisting successful business men. Thus we read of the manager of a drygoods store asserting that If she Bible is not true we are done for!; and the manager of the southern railway affirms his belief in Fundamentalism in words that might have been used by the late William J. Bryan...
...assertion that Bebe Daniels, who plays the featured part, is of an old Spanish family has always seemed to us to evince a slight touch of quaintness on the part of her publicity agents. It really matters very little who she is or what she is, so long as she is willing to throw herself into character as vigorously as she has done in her last four pictures. We were thinking especially of "Sinners in Heaven", but it might be better not to think of that one, considering the prejudice that naturally arises in favor of swimming pool business...
...large university there is a tendency for the faculty to pursue a line never quite, tangent to undergraduate interest. Hence, the evident appreciation of Professor Copeland's attempt to touch the undergraduate sphere, in the words of Dean Briggs, "to store the memory, to expand the mind, to soften the prejudices, to sharpen the insight, and to strengthen the characters of human beings...