Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the quick, precise steps of a dancing master, a stocky, dark-haired little man hurried last week across the stage of Carnegie Hall, climbed the podium, bowed to the packed house with such vehemence as to send his hair awry. It was a night of nervousness and novelty. It was the first performance of the Philharmonic's 95th season. It was the first time in ten years that the season patrons could not look forward to a single concert under their beloved Conductor Arturo Toscanini. It was the first time that John Barbirolli, 36, had ever faced...
...should like to have it said of my first administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second administration that in it these forces met their master...
That day Father Franklin passed a far harder examination and won the undoubted right to call himself the ablest master of U. S. politics in a century. He got the highest mark awarded in the Electoral College in 116 years, a popular acclaim utterly dwarfing even the mob idolatry enjoyed by Andrew Jackson, whose fox-&-hound watch chain Franklin Roosevelt now wears...
California fruit and other products, almost half of which was shipped out of the state, the chains sloganed "22 is a tax on You." Most pretentious piece of chain propaganda began six months ago with "California's Hour," a radio program with oldtime Cinemactor Conrad Nagel as Master of Ceremonies. Independent storemen founded an Anti-Monopoly League raised some $50,000 (compared to the $400,000 to $500,000 which the chains admitted spending), plied the public with counter propaganda...
...Lindsay, Vice-Chancellor, and Master of Balliol, presided at the Convocation after being escorted in by two "guards" bearing sceptres and an awful dignity. Then there was much moving about and bowing of heads, and all the while most of us were wondering where Mr. Conant was. Presently, the guards left the Vice-Chancellor, and after much more bowing brought in Mr. Conant. Still more tipping of caps and bowing and Public Orator, Dr. C. Bailey, in excellent Latin, recalled the visit made by the Vice-Chancellor as head of the Oxford delegation to the tercentenary celebrations at Harvard. Then...