Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first 175 pages he has written a good man's story, a story that many a pulp mag zine carries every month. Not, however, one that a high-class magazine, such as the Post or Scribner's would touch with a ten-foot pole. After that, with the exception of a few lines about the hero's death and his wife, the rest has no more relation to the first than day has to night...
...Codes of ethics are much more binding among thieves than among legitimate commercial firms. Should an outfit have a putup touch (opportunity for theft suggested by an outsider) for 10%, no other outfit would think of offering the putup man 15% for it. . . . Lying is perhaps considered by thieves to be more unethical than it is by the law-abiding. . . ." A member of Yellow Kid Weil's famed Chicago confidence gang reported: "In all my life I never heard of a racket man padding an expense account...
...could make an old applewoman look pathetic; young painters nowadays are more likely to make her look depraved. Somewhere between pathos and depravity lies the truth which would arouse fear and pity. For various reasons-preoccupation with design, premature austerity, honorable anger or plain bad draughtsmanship-few modern artists touch that particular truth...
...University Hall and its policy towards the man-eating shark, it must be stated that the officials do not favor this type of fish. (In fact it is doubtful if they would favor any type of fish if the officials took Friday lunches in college dining halls.) Persons in touch with the shark situation, nonetheless, sometimes dream of an express liner flying the flag of the Harvard Department of Shark Hunting and touching at lonely islands in the South Pacific, four full professors playing quoits on the sports deck and the watch singing out "Shark Ahoy...
...turned back the blankets and sank beneath them. The touch of sheets cooled and soothed his body. He stretched his toes out; it was a pleasant sensation; it relaxed him. His head began to throb...