Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mood was Mr. Hearst to support such an uninstructed delegation. Believing there was hope for Landon in the primary, the Master of San Simeon put pressure on Kansas' Governor to run in California. In a spot was Mr. Landon. To run would offend the Hoovers, would expose Landon to possible defeat by Borah, who had the support of many a follower of Senator Hiram Johnson, would cause Landon to be labeled the Hearst candidate-a label that Governor Landon has been trying to avoid since last December when William Randolph Hearst in his private car rode uninvited into Topeka...
...King appointed Queen Mary to be Grand Master of the 19-year-old Order of the British Empire, first female grand master in the history of British chivalry...
Cincinnati Germans who do much to support Cincinnati Music complained chiefly because Die Meistersinger had become The Master singers, had suffered, according to their lights, by the English translation. Similar controversies have simmered in every U. S. opera community. For those who believe that the texts should be comprehensible to all, there are as many who want their operas the way they were written. The advocates of anglicized opera maintain that theirs is the one solution for broadening opera's appeal in the U. S., point to the fact that in European opera houses performances are almost always given...
...coon and deer were plentiful, but the only enemy foxes had to fear was man. In the swamp where the Vixen bore her litter lived one of them, an Indian trapper. No sport, he killed for his living. But he accounted for fewer foxes than the local hunt, whose master was the hard-drinking widower Cap'n, squire of a plantation falling to seed almost as swiftly as himself. Of the Vixen's litter, two died in traps, one was captured, one run to death by hounds while she was still a cub. That left only...
First U.S. prizefighter to compete for the world's heavyweight championship was a Negro named Tom Molineaux. A Virginia slave whose master freed him for knocking out the bully of a neighboring plantation, Molineaux went to England in 1810, fought famed Tom Cribb, gave him a severe thrashing for 30 rounds. In the 31st round, Molineaux fractured his skull against a ring post, lost the fight. Cribb beat him again before a crowd of 40,000 in 1811. The black fisticuffer was found dead in an Irish army barracks...