Word: touching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their feet leaped all the Deputies except a handful, and every single party leader except Louis Marin of the extreme Right, who gave the perfect touch of drama by sitting with arms folded, glow- ering. Amid such a frenzy as even M. Briand has seldom stirred, the Great Man descended with grandeur. But would the Chamber vote as it cheered? Dopesters thought not?conceded to the Cabinet at this point only a slim chance of winning a majority...
...Golden Industrial Age of the corresponding period. It was easy, after the Market had broken, to denounce speculators as fools and speculation as vicious. Yet a few die-hards (such as Yale's Irving Fisher) maintained, even after the Crash, that quotations had never become so weirdly out of touch with reality as prophets-after-the-event were quick to label them. Given a profound conviction that the future of U. S. industry was boundless, that there was no limit to the potential value of U. S. securities, where could the line be drawn between farsightedness and folly? Speculation...
...written books, corresponded in French, German and English with her international friends?the blind, deaf, sick, poor, grieving. Over radio-station WEAF she now "hears" music by lightfingering a wooden sounding-board. Professor Pierre Villey, blind himself, called her a "dupe of words," characterized her esthetic "seeing-hearing" (by touch-vibration) as "a matter of autosuggestion rather than perception." William James, U. S. philosopher, admired her less philosophically, thus: "The sum of it is that you are a blessing, and I'll kill anyone who says you are not." Blessing or dupe, Miss Keller, now 49. describes these commentators...
...absolutely no idea how his fair guests look forward to these Yale-Harvard games. While week-ending in New York last Wednesday the Vagabond met no less than thirteen girls who confided in him their secret. It seems even at that early date they had not been able to touch food for twenty four hours. And with all, their dates were only with Yale boys...
...score was made until the third period, when H. L. Movius, Jr. '30 blocked a kick and the ball went over the Brown goal line, automatically scoring a safety for Harvard. Later in the same quarter J. F. Schereschewsky '32 ran 30 yards off tackle for the first touch-down...