Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subjects to addressing cards which were chiefly or entirely about winning the war, with "Merry Christmas" omitted altogether. Typical was a card on which a beefy British bulldog bestrides the Union Jack with the greeting: "Strong and yet kind, whilst children near him play, but foes who touch the flag will...
...speech had the blunt, threatening, direct, totalitarian touch so typical of the masters of Berchtesgaden and Rome, whom the Foreign Minister has several times visited. He hailed the "new era" that Nazi Germany had brought to Eastern Europe. He gloated over the "collapse of an artificially created Czechoslovakia." He sneered at onetime President Eduard Benes of Czecho-Slovakia and resented what he called M. Benes' renewed "propaganda and activities." As for neighbors...
Templeton learns his scripts by having them read to him 20 times, follows them during broadcasts by touch-cues, called "zicks," given by his manager, Stanley North. North puts his right hand on Templeton's left shoulder, squeezes when he is to speak or play, whispers the first few words of each speech. To speed his playing North presses Alec's left shoulder with his forefinger; to slow him down, the forefinger is drawn across his back. After a particularly fine job, North pats Alec's left coat pocket. Thus far, Alec has never missed...
...horse, Socialist-minded Chicago publisher printed a small edition of Gustavus Myers' History of the Great American Fortunes. Its author was a fact-worshipping reporter of Philadelphia and Manhattan who had spent eight years digging out his facts. No other publisher would touch it-they feared it was "of such a nature ... as to get us into a great deal of trouble." Declared a typical nose-holding review (New York Times): "It leaves such a bad taste in the mouth that readers may be cordially advised to read something else...
Lowell's previously undefeated touch football team lost to a strong Vanderbilt College, champions of the Yale Inter-College league, by a 12 to 0 score Saturday morning...