Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speaker to address the Debating Union his very reputation insuring a crowd, or arrangements made for prolonged discussion following out of the regular speakers in the usual Harvard Union series. And finally something might be achieved by having several members of the Faculty, members closely and constantly in touch with the students, encourage and direct undergraduate effort in discussion. Such faculty supervision has definitely promoted discussion in other universities, and is responsible at our own for a large part of the success in dramatic work and choral singing, to mention none of the other activities...
...more than two hours, I was about to decide that the capital was as dry as a bone. Then I went into a barber shop for a shave. The barber asked me if I wanted bay rum. I told him I preferred real rum. He put me in touch with a $12 bottle...
Joseph Farington, R. A., was an artist of the 18th Century. Being a prominent member of the Royal Academy, though an indifferent painter, he came in touch with nearly all of the elite of his time, in France as well as in England. From July 13, 1793, to Dec. 30, 1821, he kept a diary* in which he recorded a wealth of information about his period and the people in it. The Diary was found in 1921 by a firm of auctioneers in London and was later bought by the Morning Post for 110 guineas (about $500). Throughout the year...
...LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH!"-The familiar Punchinello plot made shiny and new by the skillful Belasco-Barrymore (Lionel) touch...
...Wrote Heywood Broun, famed colyumist: 'We are going to ask George Putnam, our publisher, to do something like that for us. The advertisement we have in mind would read: "The novels of Heywood Broun are for the whole world. They have that easy and informal touch. Mr. Broun does all his writing in pajamas...