Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 1816 there debarked at Charleston, S. C. a French fencing master who said his name was Peter Stuart Ney. From Georgetown he fled to Brownsville three years later when some French refugees insisted he was France's late, great Marshal. In the next few years he wandered from town to town in North Carolina and Virginia teaching school. Years later one of his pupils told how he had fainted on reading a newspaper report of Napoleon's death at St. Helena. Found next day with his throat ineffectively slashed, he explained: "With the death of Napoleon...
...created by Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. U. S. oil companies did not reward the inventor and his backers out of the goodness of their hearts. To establish its claims to its oil-cracking process, Universal fought many a long patent suit, one of them with Standard Oil of Indiana. Special master in that suit was an obscure Missouri lawyer from Sedalia named Holmes Hall. For his services he was allowed $100 per day, and he managed to drag out the proceedings for 999 days...
...submitted at Buckingham Palace the results of their sale of fittings of King George's yacht Britannia, a beloved treasure of "The Sailor King" who expressly commanded that she should be sunk and not used for any charitable purpose after his death. The late King's sailing master, Sir Philip Hunloke, tried to buy the Britannia's mainsheet, 70 fathoms long, but souvenir hunters outbid him. Prices also proved too high for Captain Turner, long-time skipper and yachting favorite of King George. He watched while $20 was paid for a boathook, $160 for the Britannia...
...Philippine markets are lost behind the rising U. S. tariff wall; 3) the necessity to provide for self-defense, by universal military service, a trained reserve of 400,000 men; 4) a virtually empty treasury. Lest the National Assembly's opening be saddened, its political lord and master, President Manuel Quezon, spoke of these matters in relatively euphemistic terms, although he had to ask for lower income tax exemptions, higher surtaxes, school taxes, taxes on corporate profits, inheritances, luxuries, amusements, mines, transportation, land...
...When he was Secretary of State for India he used to be driven daily to St. James's Palace in a minute Baby Austin, while the rajas and tnaharajas arrived in mammoth Daimler limousines in imitation of the King - but Sam Hoare soon showed who was master. At his first encounter with Mahatma Gandhi, then virtually a saint with tremendous kudos which had carried him straight from jail to Bucking ham Palace, Sir Samuel declared bluntly that he would give India just so much additional freedom and no more. "If this displeases you. Mr. Gandhi," said the Secretary...