Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investment houses that were selling the $70,000,000 mortgages in the U. S. did not have confidence in the company's management, they would not touch the securities...
...Significance. Because Author Asquith's first novel contains more conversation than narrative, ecstatic critics are likening her to Jane Austen. But the light touch and the subtleties of the 19th century novelist are not Margot's-hers is rather a brilliant vivacity that springs from her myriad interests. Able horsewoman, her interest reflects itself in frequent contemplation of the technicalities of horseflesh. Scintillating conversationalist, her characters reflect the widely varied circle of her acquaintance. A liberal in politics, she tilts sharply at conservatism. And the result is a mass of entertaining material, done into novel-form to allow...
Both gentlemen spoke to the merchants. Said John Erskine: "Music should be taught, like history, in high schools. . . . There is great talent in the country. . . . The difficulty, however, is that the teachers are not in touch with the talent...
Although many spikes and cleats have done their obliterative best, the Stadium has not quite lost the touch of a buskined foot. The Joan of Arc of Maude Adams was one of the first plays to be presented here, and "Caliban", the effort of Percy Mackaye to go Browning, and Shakespeare, one better was given shortly after the World War. And the classical play has not absented itself from classical setting, for the "Iphigenia in Taurus" of the company of Granville Barker likewise saw worthy performance in appropriate surroundings. Within the year Miss Anglin's "Electra" has been produced...
...prove that Harvard graduating classes make an earnest effort to keep in touch with the younger generation the Class of 1903, as a feature of its twenty-fifth reunion this month, will entertain 350 children of members of the class at an assembly at the Hotel Rockmere, Marblehead, on June...