Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quickly hired Paris lawyer. His story was that Ambassador de- Chambrun had broken off a French woman's great romance with the Italian Dictator, and so naturally she shot him. "Naturellement, Messieurs! Mark you, gentlemen, the great love of her life, a love which she could not master!" Although Dictator Mussolini and Dictator Hitler have just linked their countries in a close pact, official German radio stations were soon broadcasting the substance of French reports which were printed ten days before the shooting by Paris' often amazingly forehanded scoop-weekly Aux Ecoutes ("The Eavesdropper...
...reigning spirit of Lowell House has always been individuality. Within the short space of seven years, and even though there is a Central Committee to keep the Houses uniform, the active minds of Professor Coolidge, our master, and the other leading lights of the House have daringly and successfully developed institutions and traditions which have given Lowell a unique place in the College. Even three years ago Time Magazine singled out Lowell House to stamp it "prematurely hoary...
...THERE is any person who might just as well have been a graduate of Jack Oakie's College on the Columbia network for Camels, it's John Held, Jr., master of ceremonies of the Pontiac Varsity Show over NBC, the show which already may have saluted your campus. John Held, Jr., actually went to no college at all. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, he started work as a cartoonist at the age of 18. Thereafter he studied youth in the college of experience and found it as dizzy, as dance mad, as genially addle-pated as Jack Oakie...
...young potential writers he offered only encouragement, although he said most authorities advise against it. The style he uses, which he termed as that of the "Modern Illiterate School," is easy to master short sentences and no need for long words...
...that each House should begin to exhibit certain characteristics, certain traditions, that serve to distinguish it from the other Houses. All of the traditions of Winthrop are based on the democratic spirit of the entire House, which has been a natural development due to the popularity of the House Master, Dr. Ronald M. Ferry, and the congenial staff of tutors headed by Dr. Halfdan Gregerben. Dr. Ferry knows each man in the House by name. It would be the idle coast of a partisan observer to say that Winthrop has been blessed from birth with that intangible quality known...