Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Spargo, famous Socialist ... in Vermont is not John A. Spargo, superintendent of schools in Nutley, N. J. (TIME, Nov. 18). In fact I doubt if my old school master is related to his better known namesake...
...Among Manuel Luis Quezon's other achievements, you make mention of the fact that he had at one time been Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Islands. It seems unfortunate that you left out this fact: last year President Quezon became a convert to the Roman Catholic Church. DON SUTHERLAND...
...Atlanta last week Franklin Roosevelt delivered what the 50,000 Georgians who turned out to hear him generally regarded as the first speech of his campaign for reelection. In finest fettle the President clearly demonstrated that after nearly three years in the White House he was still the master stumpster of 1932 who could sway a crowd or a country with his vibrant voice, his buoyant words. He denounced Republican prosperity; he mocked Herbert Hoover (without naming him); he had at his old enemies, the bankers, rich clubmen, budget balancers and the Cassandras of national insolvency; he skipped his failures...
...before a comparatively educated magistrate of Maryland, the Great Khan was at once set free and the wise magistrate collected only 75? costs on a plea of "guilty of speeding" offered by the envoy's humble native American chauffeur who, with touching fidelity, had sought to save his master. In Washington, where members of Asia's diplomatic missions pride themselves on "being hep to everything United States," the speeding incident was seen at the Iranian Legation to be a piece of trivial yokelry. However, to keep the diplomatic record straight, heavily embossed Iran stationery...
...Francisco Opera House one night last week, beaming as if there were nothing in the world which pleased him more than the comical antics in The Barber of Seville. He beamed at Tito Schipa as the love-smitten Count, at Ezio Pinza as the crafty music-master, at Louis D'Angelo as the doddering old doctor, at Richard Bonelli who flourished razor and brush with the ease of a professional. The little Italian barber had reason to be pleased that night. In the company of such experienced singers his 22-year-old daughter was making...