Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...army is kept closely in touch with the workers through a system of 'patron age'; a factory will 'adopt' a regiment; a regiment, on the other hand, will 'adopt' a village. . . . The Red Army, more than any other in the world, is aiming toward the goal of a volunteer militia, in which the entire nation will participate. ... In Russian factories the workers are organized in[military training] units . . . and already they are partially outfitted with the most modern 6.5 millimeter repeaters. . . . Men in a textile factory can be turned in three minutes into...
...Sosthenes Behn is ancestrally Dutch-French. By birth, he is Danish, having been born at St. Thomas, Danish West Indies (now the Virgin Islands, U. S. territory). His first name is the Greek for "life-strength." By his own efforts, he is a naturalized American. A touch of World War heroism becomes his dark, tall, military bearing-he was a lieutenant colonel, won the D. S. M., was a member of the Legion of Honor. He started by electrifying Porto Rico's wilderness, then Cuba's, Mexico's, Chile's. These were telephone operations, at first...
Instead of putting their money in a shoe, cautious people often buy bonds. There is a feeling of safety in a crisp bond; it is backed up by buildings, lands, machinery, steel, coal?things. People can go and see or touch the things that make their bonds secure. But what about newspaper bonds? Only a fraction of their security is based on buildings and presses; the rest is good-will (of readers and advertisers). Indeed, a cautious investor might be alarmed if he asked himself the question: "How do I know definitely that anyone is going to buy this newspaper...
...Most people are amused by rather light productions, but they are getting tired of looking at the spectacular scenery and clothes of the reviews," declared Miss Groody to a CRIMSON reporter in her dressing room at the Tremont Theatre. "They want a touch of plot, good comedy, and action, with their music, and only musical comedy meets the demand...
...Galsworthy has stated that he has written his last drama, and that henceforth his literary endeavors will be directed only to the writing of prose. If he does not change his mind, the theatre going public is certain to suffer, for the touch of an artist is seen in the writing of such a production as 'Escape", now playing at the Plymouth...