Word: master
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cocked his feet on his desk, indicating that the audience was at a close. My last view of the Master, as he has been called by the janitor of Randolph Hall, was of him gazing up at the feet passing by his window seeing . . . who knows what...
...scared of Harvard boys trying to kid me in the dark during my seances," were the words of Chatrand the Great, the master magician who is starring in "The Spider," the mystery plays at the Majestic Theatre, this week. Chatrand, otherwise known as John Halliday, was carefully combing his hair and putting on his make-up in his dressing room before the performance...
...Reinhardt, German, continued to reveal his repertory at the massive Century Theatre. Again he showed himself the magic master of mass formations on the stage. The crowded fury of tattered Paris in the Revolution came clamoring to life as Danton was tried before the Revolutionary Tribunal which he had founded and as he rode to the guillotine. The rest of the play was sluggish. In German, language of the presentation, Tod means Death...
...Egypt a thin-shanked scribe squatted cross-legged and on a broad sheet of papyrus spread across his lap drew, with brush dipped into ink-the hieroglyphics of his master's discourse. That too was writing...
...Greece, a helot trotted down to a river marsh to gather kalamoi, hollow tubular stalks of grass. Each kalamos he whittled to a tapering point and handed with ink to his master, who forthwith wrote out the accounts of his battles and of his business deals...