Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Earlier in the evening, the members of both forces, together with the officials, will be welcomed at a dinner in Lowell House. Julian L. Coolidge '95, Master of the House, will preside...
...Father of Wisdom, Master of the Schools of Men . . . grant . . . that there may be no stain upon my stones, forever."-The Prayer of Oglethorpe University...
...solid, no-nonsense British education at Rugby and Balliol, settled down to spend his days as a schoolmaster at Sedbergh School, in Yorkshire. There he stayed for 17 years, leaving in friendly, dignified disagreement with the Head because he would not consider preparing boys for confirmation. A master of unbendingly upright character, a pipe-puffer, he was called "Joey Stinker" because he always smelled of tobacco. In a hard-working staff he set the pace, averaged ten hours work a day in term-time, including Sundays. Though he did not feel qualified to be a spiritual mentor, he was religious...
...pinnacle of glory he had suggested it might be. One after another they quarreled, struck attitudes, were glad to go, until only two trusted followers were left. After five years of it even they, though they shed tears, sighed with relief when a stomach ulcer at last gave their master eternity, themselves and their jailers release...
...ladies who indulge in amorous by-play with midgets. Cardini, a suave and silent magician, is on a higher plane than these. But it would take more than a clever magician to induce us to sit quietly through the antics and old jokes of Milton Berle, the genial master of ceremonies...