Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permanent class secretary is the most responsible officer of the class. It is he who keeps in touch with the members of the class after graduation, and who holds the class together. He also has a large part in arranging the class reunions. The permanent class committee cooperates with the secretary and treasurer in the arrangements for reunions. It is composed of six members, who are elected for life, just as the secretary...
Many an oldtime Smith admirer has felt that the Brown Derby was rapidly losing the common touch since his withdrawal from active politics, was growing reactionary and bad-tempered as the New Deal unfolded. Yet even these erstwhile friends had to admit that Al Smith retained his salty gift of phrase when he concluded his attack thus: "Some of my readers. may ask why others have not pointed out these dangers in the CWA program. The answer is very simple. No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa...
When Father Coughlin (pronounced Coglin) arrived in Detroit, he quickly got in touch with his burly, bespectacled friend and superior, Bishop Michael James Gallagher. There were matters to be discussed, counsel to be asked. Father Coughlin had got himself into hot water and headlines. Out in the open, where Protestants and Catholics alike could discuss it, was a ruckus which even the Pope at Rome was to hear about...
Whit Burnett and Martha Foley, I fear, have been more successful with the magazine than they have been with the anthology which contains only a few outstanding short stories. First, I shall touch briefly on the self-conscious authors who treat sex sensationally, and badly; into this category come Bruce Brown, Erskine Caldwell, James Stern, and George Albee. The last man mentioned describes pithily and dully the reactions of a seventeen-year-old boy when he is assured that he has contracted syphilis from a girl whom he loves. "Week-End," by Carlton Brown is an amusing description...
...Visit With The Master" by Theodore Pratt is the most satisfactory short story in the anthology because the author has the faculty of building up a unique situation with a masterly touch of irony. George Pendleton is an idealistic young writer who emulates the style of the great master of literature, Alfred Pillsbury. He has received a most cordial invitation to visit Mr. Phillsbury, and as he approaches the villa of the master, he dreams of the pleasant conversations he will have with the master...