Word: master
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vare's seat was further with in the room. He walked in and sat upon it like an ostler at his master's wedding, awkward but proud, mortified but grinning, sheepish without shame. There was much in store for him to endure ? the prodding of Mississippi's Harrison, the cold twitting of Nebraska's Norris, the rabbit-punching of Missouri's Reed. The lat ter chewed softly on his cigar, glancing only now and again across the aisle where sat the other Reed, haggard but urbane, threatening to fili buster for his colleague...
...28th annual International Live Stock Exposition, the 9th annual International Hay & Grain Show and the 3rd annual Illinois Master Farmers Dinner, all in Chicago last week, brought heyday to U. S. and Canadian farmers. Exciting were the contests for the best cattle, horses, sheep, swine and grains shown. Herman Trelle, of Wembley, Peace River, Alberta, Canada, brought samples of oats which yielded him 123 bushels to the acre. The judges gave him the prize, and thus for the sixth time in eight years a Canadian won the oats championship. C. Edson Smith of Corvallis, Mont., was champion wheat raiser...
...cinema. The silence was broken by a shuffling of feet and hoarse muttering. Seven or eight convicts had slipped from their places and surrounded Assistant Turnkey Ray Singleton. They were dragging him towards a door from the cellhouse into the adjacent hospital. They were telling him to get the master key. Turnkey Singleton was answering that the master key, which would open the main door of the cellhouse, had been taken away from its usual place at the telephone switchboard...
...conquests, his dark and perhaps reprehensible maneuvers, there followed a great curiosity to see the book in which they were notated. Men tried to buy it, to beg it, to steal it. Last week a publisher offered Zaharoff's Scotch servant $10,000 for the diary of his master to whom the servant immediately reported this attempted bribery...
...funeral train returned to Bucharest Premier Vintila Bratiano held an extraordinary session of his cabinet in one of the cars, and in another the Dowager Queen Marie addressed correspondents: "Jon Bratiano was a leader, a master, a man, whose unswerving friendship bound us together through long years of hard and difficult labor. We believed in each other, and my absolute loyalty to his ideals made us collaborators who kept the faith. I was strong enough to rejoice over his strength. . . . He now belongs to the ages. . . . We can but bow our heads...