Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...direct answer to Nazi hopes that the narrow escape would make Adolf Hitler better loved, some Berlin hater winged a brick through the plate-glass window of Hitler's favorite, official photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. Herr Hitler was all dressed up in luck last week. The brick did not touch the big portrait of the Führer in the window...
...backlog; to an easily bored one, it was an excuse for leaving dull dinner-parties early. As dramatic editor, Kaufman left his mark. Before his time, Manhattan's dramatic pages were stodgy affairs, choked with publicity handouts. Kaufman tabooed these "dog stories," brought a light touch-which has become standard-to the writing of copy. When an underling became ponderous by introducing into his stories fancy footnotes requiring asterisks, daggers and signs of the zodiac, Kaufman cured him by throwing in a footnote of his own, reading: "Does not carry dining...
With warring nations bidding for her produce, Bucharest's stockmarket is booming as rarely before. Rumania's currency is controlled, but a Black Bourse operates full-blast and the Bucharest visitor with valuta (foreign exchange) in his pocket has no trouble at all in getting in touch with men quite willing to give him two or three times the "official" rate of exchange. (Example: officially there are 140 leis to $1; on the Black Bourse $1 will bring as high as 400.) The jewel mart is doing a land-office business with those Polish aristocrats who could bring...
Lowell's undefeated touch football team, sparked by Sam White, Bud Doering, and Bob Murray, clinched the House touch title yesterday afternoon by swamping Dunster...
Leverett's touch squad downed Adams by an 18 to 6 score in the second game of the afternoon...