Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only the discomfited questioner. Soon the correspondents as a group were agreeing with the President's secretaries that in diplomacy he is very adroit, revels in doing "the smart thing," and would have made a perfect Ambassador in the great days of diplomacy, a sort of Talleyrand. The master stroke delivered by Talleyrand Roosevelt last week was to have the U. S. Chargé d'Affaires inform Emperor Power of Trinity that...
...tall, fair Vittorio Mussolini, 18, and chunky, dark Bruno Mussolini, 17, the youngest regularly licensed air pilots in Italy, called on their father as Minister of Aviation, to enlist for fighting service against Ethiopia. Fascists present said that Il Duce received his sons with a visible effort to master his feelings as a father, grunted a wordless assent to their request, dashed his signature upon their papers of enlistment...
...name of the King," replied the King of Arms, "His Royal Highness, the Great Master of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath demands entrance into the Chapel of the Order...
...portal opened, in strode Great Master Connaught to hold the fifth investiture of Knights of the Bath in a hundred years. It was Connaught who in 1913 revived most of the ancient ritual, for decades in abeyance. Theory of the origin of the Bath is that in medieval times a soldier might well stink so strongly that even his strong-nostriled King might find it necessary to have the heroic fellow washed before dubbing him knight. Last week there was no actual washing, and all 21 new knights appeared most cleanly. Under the stern Great Master's eagle eye they...
...American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.'s Board Chairman Clarence Mott Woolley, a Manhattan restorer scratched out about one-third of a nude girl with red roses in her blonde hair, placed the original painting in the early 16th Century, thought it might be the work of an old master. Commented Mr. Woolley: "I think he's unduly excited about it. When I saw him last he thought it was a Michelangelo...