Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Filipino people better than Filipino politicians picture the latter strutting before their constituencies with a New Year rodomondate: "One step more and we shall be a full-fledged member of the family of nations. We shall slap France upon the back, raise our hat to England-with a touch of hauteur to show we are her equal. We can be a trifle patronizing to our late, fortune-fallen master, Spain. As for this overbearing U. S., we shall cut him dead...
...BROTHER'S FACE?Dhan Gopal Mukerji?Dutton ($3.00). With a supreme touch of mystic philosophy which transports the reader to the domes of India, Mukerji relates his home-coming after "many years of wandering." His brother's face is indeed his brother's; but something more. It is India and Gandhi. A most absorbing book...
Long have composers wagged reproving fingers at the cinema, regarding it as a disorderly small boy whose grubby touch has too often smutted the dress of their lady, Music. Last week, one Josiah Zuro, Presentation Director in a Manhattan cinema theatre, pointed to a way by which composers, by casting an eye to the education of that same grimy juvenile, might better themselves, serve their, mistress to boot. "The cinema," said he, "needs opera-thumbnail opera. It needs opera to take the place of 'presentations'." Who does not know these presentations? In that uneasy ten minutes which intervenes...
...disorderly small boy with grubby touch...
...Lampoon extends its Christmas greetings within a cover on which Saunders has successfully emphasized the festive season without a hint of mistletoe or the bearded ancient, and barely a touch of green and red, distinctly an achievement. There are signs of an earnest effort to give the rest of the issue both text and pictures, the same seasonal flavor, but with an indifferent result which suggests that there may be some foundation for the persistent reports that nobody is getting into the proper mood this December...