Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...priest of priests drove from the temple of Jerusalem," cried he, "have marshaled their forces behind the leadership of a chocolate soldier forthe purpose of driving the priest out of public affairs. . . . You compare me to Judas Iscariot as a piker, the same Judas who betrayed his Lord and Master. Oh, it is not my province to classify myself with the eleven faithful Apostles. I am content to leave that to the justice of history and to the judgment of God. ... I rejoice that never once have I sold Jesus Christ nor did I ever betray the brothers of Jesus...
...perhaps be suggested by the fact that its climax is reached when the hero, the apotheosis of all fictitious butlers, recites Lincoln's Gettysburg Address in the back room of the principal saloon of Red Gap, Washington. Ruggles (Charles Laughton) is sitting at a table with his erratic master, Egbert Froud, and he is facing the crisis of his life. Six months before, he was valet to a British peer who lost him, in a game of draw poker, to the first family of Red Gap. In Red Gap, a combination of unhappy circumstances has caused Ruggles...
...sings one or two of the old favorites including an amusing song of tender filial devotion entitled "Don't Swat Mother, 'Cause That's Mean."--a song which we should like to have rendered over the radio every five minutes on Mother's Day; as an antidote. Brannigan, the master prestidigitator, performs his sleight of hand wonders with suave sureness...
...hours later, when the "enemy" steamed peacefully into harbor, the similarity between the Spanish and Austrian flags was made evident to the "Harvard's" master, and several other naval commanders, no doubt one of them the captain of the good ship "Yale," took great pains to inform Captain Cotton that Austria was neutral...
...included 18 miniatures by Jean & François Clouet; 75 by the 18th Century's master miniaturist, Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin; 56 by the British master, Richard Cosway; and one called Group of Five Persons in a Landscape said to be the only miniature ever painted by Jean Antoine Watteau. Prize of the collection is The Armada Jewel, a minuscule painting sent by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Francis Walsingham, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for his help in outfitting the English fleet that defeated Spain. The jewel's face bears a gold relief profile bust...