Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trot and tango. Included in his suite was a thing called the "flicker" which he said was the rage in London. Obligingly he "flicked" for the 80 delegates. Pointing a well-shod toe, taking a step forward with the right foot, bringing the left across so that the ankles touch, the "flickerer" then stamps smartly with the right foot, executing a quick chasse (chasing the right foot out of place with the left). Another step and stamp with the left foot and one has "flickered." Repeat rapidly to fox trot time...
...powers receive in reparations. Surprisingly enough the major part of this concession was made not by France but by Italy, a fact the more notable because the Italian chief delegate, Finance Minister Antonio Mosconi, has not had a free hand, but has been forced to keep in hourly telegraphic touch with Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, no softie...
Sprinting & Horsepower. Sprinters expend 13 horsepower of chemical energy and 3 horsepower of mechanical energy. Rochester's Wallace Osgood Fenn found. They lose some energy because when their feet touch the ground they push themselves back slightly. Wind resistance absorbs some of their energy...
...free hand. . . . My inclinations are towards industry and the development of Spain. . . . I am a worker. . . . The idea that a King is a man who lives in a beautiful house surrounded by silk-dressed valets and plumed lackeys, fine soldiers and such sort of people-a kind of touch-me-not-is antiquated...
...touch of Midas turned things to gold. In the legends of finance the name of J. P. Morgan is supposed to have the same effect. All sorts of stocks are sometimes labelled Morgan stocks, yet no one save the uncommunicative partners at 23 Wall St. really knows exactly what companies have Morgan connections, or how much stock interest, if any, J. P. Morgan Co. holds in them. Speculators eager to know how much the name of Morgan is like the touch of Midas, have spent much time calculating what profit Morgan stocks have shown...