Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staff of John D. Rockefeller. His connection with the Pennsylvania railroad has given him a detailed knowledge of railroad problems, and he is a distinguished lecturer on this subject. His lecture at the Union, which will be of a non-technical nature, and open to Union members, will probably touch on railroad questions, and also include some interesting side-lights on big business notables...
...have always considered him the most brilliant of our younger novelists. No one of them can touch his; glowing bitterness, his style, nor the superb quality of his satire. He has yet to fuse them in a novel with carefulness of conception and profound development of character. He can become almost any kind of writer that his peculiarly restless temperament will allow...
...trip is only one of many that he has made in this country during the last sixteen years. As a result of his observations and knowledge of Englishmen and Americans, he is a staunch supporter of Anglo-American amity and union. It is probable that his talk today will touch on this subject...
...Hill: "I wish the gentleman and his colleagues from Georgia would stand up on the floor of the House and take the pledge which the gentleman from Georgia wants us to take, never again to touch the flowing bowl, legal or illegal. When they do that I shall follow them and give up rum until we modify the Volstead...
...over a year. But she has been so great a success, that her department of the paper was enlarged and she was given full page advertising. The Prudence of Manhattan may be taken as a large scale type of all Prudences in describing this tremendous development of the personal touch in journalism...