Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...election in the City of New York, with all the newspapers against him, a gentleman was elected Mayor, and that shows the influence of these papers with the public. If they would get in touch with human nature and understand the ordinary people, instead of being always bowing to wealth, I think they would gain very much for their editorial policies. As I said before, I compliment the men in the gallery here who do give the news correctly, which appears in The New York Times correctly...
Claire, another Godwin daughter, deliberately got herself into trouble with the notorious Lord Byron. This brought Shelley and the then greater poet into close touch and the rest of the story deals with life in Italy, the death of two of Shelley's children, the platonic affection of Shelley for several beautiful women, his naked appearance before the ladies of his household, the gradual cooling of his relation with Mary, the building of the boat Ariel,? named after...
...gather, the club, if formed, will be managed entirely by Harvard men, but will keep close touch with the New York and Boston offices being responsible to the former alone; that is to say, I believe it will be exempt from outside control as long as it keeps within the bounds laid down by the policy of the Boy Scouts of America...
...than in that of the business man in his sweating years of approach to the final eminence that may be vouchsafed him. A teacher, unless he stubbornly insists on being discontented, "unappreciated," and morose, has a fine chance of keeping young; there is little more inspiriting than the constant touch that the teacher has with the successive college generations of young men that he influences--and by whom he is equally influenced. And is it wholly amiss to mention his long vacations? If he is any good he uses them partly for work, to be sure, but he can work...
...announcement that the beetic activities of Commencement Week will be added to this year by a match between the respective polo teams of Harvard and Yale foreshadows an innovation which should put a pleasurable touch of variety in the usual list of entertainment's. What with reunions, baseball games, spreads, and polo matches, the waking hours of the alumnus returning to the shadows of the Yard for the first time since graduation will be fairly well occupied. In fact he may count himself fortunate if he is still able to stand when the whistle blows, figuratively speaking...