Word: master
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bureaucracy is ever desirous of spreading its influence and its power. You cannot extend the mastery of the Government over the daily working life of a people without at the same time making it the master of the people's souls and thoughts...
...family fight for Boss Croker's $5,000,000 estate; of a Croker son who killed himself racing automobiles; of another son who died from smoking opium, on a train, near Emporia, Kan.; of a Croker daughter who married an Italian count and another who married a riding master; of Boss Croker's second wife, a Cherokee princess; of the Croker race horses, bulldogs and Irish estate. Boss Croker set Richard Croker Jr. up in business with $150,000 and gave his other children $4,000 per annum each. They tried to prove him crazy, to get more...
...Majesty's close and sportsmanly friend, Col. Hugh Cecil Lowther, 71, 5th Earl of Lonsdale, who is also Viscount and Baron Lowther, Lord Lieutenant and Gustos Rotulonim* of Cumberland, Colonel of the Westmorland and Cumberland Imperial Yeomanry. Hereditary Admiral of the Coasts of Cumberland and Westmorland, and late Master of the smart Cottesmore Hounds...
Meanwhile there were the amenities of all conventions: such as the discussion of the Master prayerbook, which will be printed at an estimated expense of $100,000 (to be borne by John Pierpont Morgan as had his father before him), and turned over to the Rev. Dr. Lucien Moore Robinson, of Philadelphia, custodian of the Master book...
Eager for classification, students sought a word which might fit such potent industrialists. They shelved master, titan, king, as painfully obvious. They considered ponderous recondite synonyms for potentate, but at length rejected hospodar, beglerbeg and three-tailed bashaw as offensively obscure. They hit happily on the brief but sonorous Tycoon...