Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...event, non-Catholics were properly impressed by this example of the technical propriety with which Catholics surround the sacrament. They wondered, nonetheless, whether such a rebuke might not be even more fitting when applied to the members of some Protestant sect who, when they take communion, actually touch the chalice with their mouths; rather than to Catholics who merely stick out their tongues to receive small circles of wafer...
...across the walls of his exhibits. Four years ago Painter Roerich gathered together some scientifically-minded artist friends, his wife, his son George, (Harvard Orientalist) and set out on an expedition into Asia to get inspiration and information about tribal customs and religions. For three years he kept in touch with the home office, his Roerich Museum, in Manhattan. Then for a year all was silence. Last week, while friends feared the expedition would never be heard from again, came a cable from Sikkim, India...
...child's soul. Professor Cornelius looks on complacently at the party his two older children are giving to a post-War medley of friends. He notices one of them, an actor, carries with him not only the sadness of his tragic roles, but on his cheekbones a touch of carmine that was obviously of cosmetic origin. And the professor wonders vaguely why the young man "did not cling either to one thing or the other?either to his melancholy or to his rouge." Another more affable young guest, one Hergesell, squired a buxom blonde beauty, but left...
...editors escaped one annoying task writing the preface--by the admirable evasion of having President Lowell do it for them. Thus the volume opens with a distinctive touch. Most striking of the changes is the novel appearance of the individual pictures of the members of the class. With a daring but successful hand, these cuts have been moved to the outer edges of all the pages, and the "life histories" beside them have been carefully and artistically centered. The dignity of the book is curiously enhanced by this transfiguration...
...examinations, either because they do not know how to work by themselves, or because complete lack of supervision has led them to believe that no work is expected of them. A few extra tests and reports during these opening months would both enable the instructors to keep in close touch with their students, and would lessen the shock of the November hours...