Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outgrown his home district, Mr. Madden's popularity at home had not diminished. His constituents were disgusted with his political associate Mayor William Hale (-'Big Bill") Thompson, and some of them had determined to nominate a Congressman of their own race, a Negro. But Thompsonism could not touch him nor could race pride overcome so long and fine a record as his. Mr. Madden was comfortably renominated. Appointment of a Negro to succeed him was expected, the first Negro to go to Congress in 25 years, the first ever from the North...
...Letters poured in to the newspapers demanding explanations. Was it just a publicity stunt? Why was not the serum used, if it was needed? Why did it have to be sent dramatically from Manhattan by air when Montreal was known as a great medical centre? What was the pretty touch about sending the white mice...
...anybody touch your book except yourself. If you find any one impertinent enough to venture, burn his foreword and drop him into the dustbin...
...very pleasant, now, when most first-novelists are either rabid and wild-eyed sophisticates or intellectual inverts with empty heads, to read what has been written by someone who is neither ashamed or proud of naivete, who carries in her mind the torture of youth more brightly than its touch. The book is as interesting as a secret; it is too bad that Author Powell speaks on page 6 of Aunt Jule's "black hair piled in sleek coils" and on page 191 of Aunt Jule remembering "her hair, golden like Linda's . . ." but only people who read...
...airplane chauffeur, costumed in trim livery, was retained last fortnight by Mary du Cauroy, 62, Duchess of Bedford. Recently she purchased a small, conveniently maneuverable "Moth" airplane, and transformed into a landing field the lawn in front of her home, Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire. The chauffeur is the final touch. He now pilots Her Grace back and forth to London, where she is busily engaged in performing electro-physical researches...