Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collegiate education. To merely recognizes the fact that it should not exclude the arts but join with them in reducing collegiate thought to a mean of common sense. Any sentimental traditions, no matter how venerable, that exclude from the college curriculum, all but scholastic abstractions untainted by the leprous touch of realism, should never stand in the way of such additions as this...
...individual assertion of free leaders than from the more systematic attention to detail possible under the long arm of the faculty. When undergraduate athletics become too large a responsibility for undergraduate direction it would seem wiser frankly to admit this and to accept graduate management. Let the student leader touch only that task which he can reach with his own hands...
...safety-razor stand Empire Salesman Wales remarked with just a touch of ballyhoo: "I always use one of these myself. It is a jolly sight safer than the old-fashioned...
Shortly after that, Han's unmarried sister gave birth to a son. Han proclaimed him the promised leader. Worshippers came to see the babe, to touch the sigil. Han called the child the Emperor of Heaven and a cult grew about him called the Heavenly Gates. Today the Emperor of Heaven is two years old. As yet he has done nothing remarkable. But in the Honan province he has many worshippers who are allied in a secret society. And recently Han purchased arms to protect the Heavenly Gates...
...nothing of its own quite like Chevalier. He effervesces songs and, with fleeting pantomime, gives them the quality of fine etchings slightly caricatured. Having risen from the streets of Paris he has the wistfulness of their shadows. The Paris music-halls have given him a touch of rowdiness. The War, in which he was wounded and captured, left him with unbridled spontaneity...