Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nazi Göring is Premier of Prussia, German Air Minister, Master of the Hunt, Chief Forester, General of Aviation and dread Chief of the Secret Political Police. It was he who ordered shot during the Blood Purge (TIME, July 9) the only man for whom Adolf Hitler had acted as best man since his rise to power, Berlin Storm Troop Leader Karl Ernst. Last week the Realmleader was going to be best man for Göring...
...Clay Dalzell's suave bar manners are much more stimulating than the mystery which he solves in Star of Midnight, and it will be no surprise to the thirsty audience to learn that a barfly is responsible for the crime. Cinemaddicts who enjoyed The Thin Man, recognized master print for all cocktail and wisecrack crime cinemas, should find Star of Midnight an entertaining and not too sedulous copy. Good shot: Clay Dalzell getting gaily...
...first to announce the crime; someone passing a door hears a conversation, attributes it to the wrong persons; circumstantial evidence always points to the innocent, thus illustrating Author Green's stanch belief in its fallibility. In some 20 of her 36 books, the hero was a master mind named Ebenezer Gryce. Called the world's foremost detective story writer by Stanley Baldwin, Miss Green was a friend of such addicts as Presidents Roosevelt I and Wilson, Lord Bryce. William Maxwell Evarts. Other books: That Affair Next Door, The Sword of Damocles, The Circular Study, The Filigree Ball...
...Eliot is another obvious master, especially in technique, indeed almost exclusively in technique, for there is much in the content of Day Lewis's poetry of which Eliot, standing for his King and Church, is bound to disapprove. For Day Lewis, like Auden and Spender, is a poet who uses "Communion both as a stimulus and as a kind of relief from irritation," and in doing so he may well have yielded, as he suggests while speaking of the Communist movement in contemporary letters, to a passing fashion, since the literary world has its whirligig of fashion, even...
...deliver Nazidom's final electioneering blow in Danzig last week came the master mob orator who at times surpasses even Adolf Hitler, Dr. Paul Josef Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment. Goebbels' gems...