Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driving at the usual 50 m.p.h. clip, the motorcade never once exceeded 30 m.p.h. The 75-mile trip took nearly three hours. At the edge of New York City, 350 police took over from State Troopers. Behind 15 motorcycle policemen and a dozen cars filled with detectives in constant touch by radio with police headquarters, the President drove to his town house on East 65th Street through streets which had been cleared of all traffic for half an hour before his arrival. Although it was dinner hour on a rainy night, the city's heavy traffic was again disrupted...
...that the love which it delineates, while unlicensed, is endowed with supernatural purity. It is the merit of Peter Ibbetson that its evanescent romance does not evaporate entirely in the dissolve treatment which all such dream-epics demand from the camera. This is due partly to the firmly sympathetic touch of Director Henry Hathaway, previously noted for such outdoor works as Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and partly to the presence of Gary Cooper and Ann Harding whose eminently unmystical impersonations correct the narrative's tendency to become shrouded in poetic fantasy...
...Allen, the brown-haired, vivacious mate of Actor Raymond Massey, have been given no easy task in making Pride and Prejudice march. An extravagant admirer of Jane Austen's quiet, domestic observations was Sir Walter Scott, who declared: "I can do the big bowwow myself: but the exquisite touch ... is denied to me." Most 20th Century playgoers lean toward the big bowwow. Accordingly, they might reasonably be expected to yawn at characters whose menfolk's tights and neckwear make them look like bullfrogs about to spring, whose every silly sentence twists toward rarefied romance, and who employ three...
...later years to round it out with priceless treasures secured from a George M. Williamson. Especially did Widener love to possess volumes that had been cherished by the authors themselves, volumes with personal dedications to the authors' friends and patrons. Because of this love for books with a personal touch, he spent much time and money in acquiring those of his favorite writer, Stevenson; and this excellent collection results...
...assistant professor of Government, also speaking at the meeting, declared that we must discard our "out worn policy of impartiality" for one of "whole-hearted cooperation with other peaceful nations and open partiality against the warring aggressor." By stationing a permanent diplomat at Geneva and keeping in close touch with London and Paris, Professor Hopper claimed that the United States could more consistently work with the League of Nations and not play "the lone wolf as we did in the Hoover Moratorium...