Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special guests, the associates of the House and their wives, and parents of the members of the Committee have been invite to dine with Professor and Mrs. Merriman at the Master's Lodgings. They included Professor and Mrs. Thomas Barbour, Professor and Mrs. George D. Birkhoff, Professor and Mrs. Walter B. Cannon, Professor and Mrs. William Langer, Professors Ferland Baldensperger, Theodore Lyman, Arthur Darby Nock, Fred N. Robinson, Professor and Mrs. Zachariah Chafee, Jr., Professor and Mrs. Arthur N. Holcombe, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Brooks, and Mr. and Mrs. John M. Hartwell...
Georges Andre Martin acts as master of ceremonies with considerable suaveness and a nice sort of Chevalier accent. He justifies himself in the second act with a most unusual and amusing novelty. With the spotlight focused on a black table top, he causes two fingers of each hand to move so that they give an exact imitation of the more popular dance styles. Raphael, the well known concertina player, has, under his French plumber's exterior, the soul and talent of the lighter and more dazzling classics which stop the show for numerous encores. The Rocky brothers dance lightly...
...meeting between Octavianus Caesar the August and Cleopatra the Shamefaced. Don't ask us for the reference. There is nothing of the mummy in us; we went for the meat, and left those dry-as-dust details alone. Anyway, one of Augustus' soldiers, not quite so austere as his master, whispered to his fellows, "Caesar cam videt; rape cam, Caesar...
...critical juncture a Federal agent, detailed to spy on Burr and Blennerhassett, sent back his report to Washington. President Jefferson issued a proclamation warning citizens not to give aid to Burr's plan. Shortly a detachment of Virginia militia raided and looted the island, just missed catching its master. Before next spring, Aaron Burr had been arrested three times for treason in Kentucky and Mississippi. Blennerhassett was arrested twice on the same charge, the second time in Kentucky, where his case was defended by a promising young lawyer named Henry Clay. There followed the great Burr treason trial...
SILAS CROCKETT-Mary Ellen Chase- Macmillan ($2.50). Silas Crockett was 23, master of the clipper Southern Seas, when in 1830 he returned to the Maine village of Saturday Cove after a profitable voyage to Canton. He was returning to "the shining coast" to marry Solace Winship, high-spirited daughter of a local builder whose untaught good taste had created masterpieces of native architecture throughout Maine. Self-confident, aggressive, Silas was determined to take Solace with him on his next voyage, feared the opposition of her parents and of his own, was sure Solace would willingly accompany him. But when, after...