Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy's summer war games in Sicily, was evidently intended to be a curtain raiser for new developments in Italian foreign policy. Throughout the Fascist Empire 43,000,000 Italians, obedient to orders of the Fascist Grand Council, stopped work, streamed into public squares to hear broadcast their master's voice. A squad of interpreters scribbled furiously to translate the speech into 18 languages for the benefit of the world at large...
...Memorialized by Novelist Robert Herrick, a onetime Gehring patient, in The Master...
...village in the Basses-Alpes, and still lives there, with his wife, his mother and two children. He left high school at 14, went to work for a bank, left it for the War. The success of his first novel (1929) gave him sufficient confidence to become his own master, retire to his house, where he hung a sign on the doorknob: "J. Giono works in the mornings...
...Washington who helped finance the Continental Army. Last week Warner Brothers announced that Salomon would be impersonated by Muni next, but it was shortly revealed that Muni had turned down the role on the ground that U. S. citizens might object to the implication that a Jew was the master mind behind the Father of His Country. Nevertheless, Hollywood could not believe he would be reading parts if he seriously meant to retire...
Exiled at 15 because he knocked down a policeman while defending the Young Master in a brothel, Ivan got along fine in Siberia until he drove a corkscrew through the commandant's neck for making improper advances to him. At a fugitives' hideout he was petted by a beautiful Swedish girl named Hilda who lectured: "You are strange, you Russians. Your eyes are clear and clean, and your minds are clean though not clear, but your tongue is a pigsty of foulness." To which Ivan replied : "We are sons of pigs; a pig was my nurse." When...