Word: master
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quantico's Mayor and stationmaster, A. E. Mclnteer, summoned the town council. Theirs was a quandary with only one exit. Without bootleggers, life in Quantico would be dull. But without Marines there would be no life at all. Station-Master Mclnteer got into his new blue roadster and sped to neighboring towns to borrow warrants. After a short, intense campaign he reported to General Butler that the last "big" bootlegger had left town. Merchants dusted off their stock, waited anxiously for the sound of the band leading the Marines back to Quantico...
...city planning was announced and given by the Faculty of the School of Landscape Architecture. That School, if not the very first, was among the first in the world to give collegiate instruction in city planning. In 1923 an option in city planning, leading to the degree of master in landscape architecture in the specially designated field of city planning, was established in the School of Landscape Architecture...
...including Saturday, January 11, 1930, meeting weekly at the Perkins Institute on all Fridays and Saturdays that do not fall within the Christmas recess, with the single exception of the initial session. Students in this course are allowed to count this work as credit towards a degree of Master of Education at Harvard, provided they are of graduate standing...
...slender, patrician Englishman who rose to reply is Viscount d'Abernon of Stoke d'Abernon. A brilliant master of conciliation he scored heavily as the Empire's first Ambassador in sullen Berlin directly after the War. His brain conceived the Locarno Pacts. When three other statesmen?Briand, Chamberlain, Stresemann?carried through his idea and each won a Nobel Peace Prize, he contentedly retired. Germany had been brought back into the comity of nations and he did not care who got the credit. In the same spirit Viscount d'Abernon recently con- sented to head the unofficial British Trade Mission...
Actor Milton Sills is the describer of leading cinemactors and cinemactresses. He calls Pola Negri "frank, tempestuous"; Janet Gaynor "radiant"; Ernest Torrence "rugged"; John Gilbert "young, reckless." He says that Adolphe Menjou has "fascinating wickedness," that Emil Jannings is the "master craftsman." He admits that the screen still awaits "its Duse and its Booth...