Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...modern medicine. Thinking always of the cures performed by a man of Galilee, it has held apart from the contentions of surgeons and physicians, to interest itself rather in the works of those faith healers who work without stethescopes or education, trying to restore the sick by a touch, telling the crippled to take up their beds and walk...
...Brooms. The theme of a man who takes over his father's business does not sound immensely novel. Of course he makes a success of it. A touch of satire on the very banality of the story was required. This the film factory omitted. Therefore the picture lacks entertainment...
Athletes at their training tables began to find fault with things; the little grooves deepened between nostril and upper lip; coaches were conciliatory, recognizing in such indications a touch of overtraining. And on Saturday the melodramatics of football were continued...
...Along Rum Row" has been changed at the Rear Admiral's request to "Peace and War Service--the United. States Coast Guard." "I am entirely in accord with your thought," Rear Admiral Billard has written the Union in discussing his address, "and it shall be my purpose not to touch at all upon any principles of prohibition. I shall rather try to interest the young men in what is going on, and how the Coast Guard is handling its operations against the rum his. It seems to me rather necessary, in order to make my hearers appreciate just what...
...Coast Guard Commandant has been in close touch with the actual conditions also the Atlantic seaboard. He is personally in charge of the extensive blockades now being maintained off Boston, New York, and other Atlantic ports. He has witnessed in person gun duals between his men and the blockade runners...