Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...receive a sealed Nazi urn supposed to contain the ashes. Last week perhaps because she came of one of Prussia's first fighting families, Nazis did not cremate the remains of beauteous Baroness Benita von Falkenhayn, who lost her head fortnight ago while Polish Baron George Sosnowski, her master in amours and spying, was let off with life imprisonment...
When Marie Antoinette was the Dauphine of France she took one of her rare determined stands on behalf of Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. Gluck had been her singing master in Vienna and when he wanted to produce a new opera in Paris she saw that he had his way. Last week, when it was 163 years old, Gluck's Iphigénie en Aulide was given its U.S. première by the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia...
...procedure which the Central Committee followed last year was, briefly, as follows. Before any assignments were made, the Master of each House was given the application blanks of all the men who set forth special claims for his House. The Masters considered these applications carefully and indicated to the Central Committee the men whom they would like especially to have assigned to them...
...list of tentative assignments as drawn up by the Masters and supplemented by the Central Committee was then turned over to the respective Masters for final review because it was understood at all times that the function of the Central Committee was merely to make an equitable distribution of the applicants; whether or not a man so assigned would be accepted rested entirely with the Master. Except for a few minor adjustments, however, the assignments suggested by the Central Committee were accepted...
...enterprise in which the initiative was left as much as possible to the House authorities, the Committee serving chiefly as a clearing center. The fact was emphasized that the task of the Committee is one of distribution; the final admission of a student to a House rests with the Master...