Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best dancers. Responsible for the high quality of dancing at the Military Academy for the past 52 years was Rudolph W. Vizay. Last week the national colors were half-staffed at West Point and his old pupils the world over mourned the passing of 77-year-old Dancing Master Vizay, who died at the Academy hospital following a heart attack...
...only capable Army officers but also polished gentlemen, "dancing and ball room etiquette" is one of the first courses in which a plebe is instructed. If he cannot pass minimum dancing requirements the first year, he keeps on plodding around with the "elephant squad" until he can. Dancing Master Vizay-"The Professor" to his charges-spent four months every year at the Academy, where his father had taught dancing before him, was a stickler for erect carriage, measured glide and strict ballroom decorum. Off duty, he was a great favorite with the Point's baseball fans. His encyclopedic knowledge...
SCHOOLTEACHER OFFERS SERVICES Have taught almost 14 years. Have degree of Master of Arts. . . . At present am administrator of six schools, serve as principal of one, have five periods in classroom daily, hunt up delinquent children, find clothing for the indigent, keep school busses running, raise money to carry on athletic program. . . . For past two years my salary has been lower in my town than that of any local mail clerk, mail carrier, business manager or administrator, preacher, and of certain filling station employees and retail clerks. . . . Assets: one car (runs best in garage); three suits clothes (when wearing...
...schoolgirls." He finally chose Amalie Materna, a big-chested Styrian with a grand manner and a zooming voice. At that first Bayreuth Festival in 1876 one of the Rhine maidens was a pretty young Jewess named Lilli Lehmann. Wagner wanted to adopt her but her mother, who knew the master well, objected. Lehmann was a light coloratura then and no one, least of all Wagner, suspected that she was soon to cultivate dramatic rôles and sing Brünnhilde...
...bushy-haired daughter sang songs about canaries. Then Trainer Belmont divulged a few professional secrets. A good way to reprimand a monkey is to bite it. But canaries must be guided by patience and love. A real singing bird must start his career at eight weeks, when a conscientious master will shut him in a dark room, teach him to imitate a master canary, a human whistle or some musical instrument. A canary that shows promise should practice three hours a day and by the end of a year should have its repertoire fully developed...