Word: touching
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...editor and teacher, the passing years have found him well-liked in his success; as professor emeritus, future years will find him well-remembered in his retirement. A scholar as well as a speaker often inspiring, he brought the best of himself into the classroom, and left the touch of his kindly, whimsical personality upon the great men of letters whom he interpreted. His students will remember him for the human quality which he never sacrificed for pedagogical catch-word or scholastic obscurity, for his ability to give life to past greatness, and for his capacity for enthusiasm...
Incubus. But the Farm Board and its two wheat-dealing agencies, Farmers National Grain Corp. and Grain Stabilization Corp., were much less interested in the 1930 crop which they have promised not to touch on the market, than they were in the great 1929 crop, an incubus under which they still labored. The two grain corporations, interlocking in personnel and activity, had bought in some 45 or 50 million bushels of wheat, of which 15 million were futures for May delivery (TIME. March 10). Wheat bins were already choked in Chicago and Minneapolis. Delivery date had almost come. Chairman Legge...
...dismayed. The Miami Daily News, in front-page editorials by Editor-Owner James M. Cox, 1920 Democratic presidential nominee, had been vigorously campaigning against Capone as a menace to the community's good name. Brother Albert Capone had been arrested for vagrancy. State authorities, however, could not touch Brother Alphonse because, smart, he had secured a Federal injunction for protection...
...possible. A pagan prelude introduces it and the young girls encircle, glorify the one. Ancestors are invoked who around her as she starts the propitiatory dance. Fearfully, madly she moves to crazy cross-grained rhythms, falls dead finally across a human pyre built hastily that her body may not touch the sacred soil...
...life in his ancestral home at Rosthwaite in the Cumberland lake country. His stupid wife irritates him; to irritate her he brings along his current mistress. Soon he is known, feared, disliked by the whole countryside. The troubles of '45 (invasion of England by the Young Pretender) hardly touch him, though he and his son are in Carlisle when the town falls to Prince Charles Edward's Highlanders. His mistress dismissed, his wife dead, his children grown up and married, Herries becomes more and more alone, meets red-headed Mira-bell Starr, outlaw child of the moors...