Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that they be previously submitted in writing. But the difference is one of method only, arising from the fact that Mr. Roosevelt, especially with the advantage a President in a press conference has over his guests, can avoid answering anything he does not want to answer. He is a master of avoidance, and the rules of courtesy, plus the prestige of his great office, preclude any attempt to pin him down. He gives out in these conferences just what he wishes to give out, and, if he is in a tight place, there is always the unfair device...
...Heckled by Pharisees and Herodians, Jesus countered: "Why call me with your mouth, master, when ye hear not what...
Field Marshal George Francis Milne, Baron Milne of Salonika and of Rubislaw, Governor and Constable of His Majesty's Tower of London, Master Gunner of St. James's Park, returning to England with his wife and his daughter from a tour of Australia, landed one icy day at Vancouver, B. C. He tried to get an eastbound train, found Canadian railways buried by snowslides, torn by washouts. Vastly annoyed, Lord Milne, wife & daughter took a train which veered south across the U. S. border, stopped at Seattle. Shortly newshawks came, bothered them with questions. Snapped His Lordship...
Lawrence was a master, despite his faults, and Wilkie was at all events competent, as were Bonington, Elty, and Crome or Cotman, to name a few others. One must remember that competence is almost a pejorative term in criticism, if connotes the damnation of faint praise. Turner was once one of the gods of Fry's idolatry, so his remarks here, though just to this reviewer, may seem to some idol-demolition. Fry recovers, however, from any suggestion of mere pique, with his laudation of Constable: "Constable, like Gainsborough, belongs to the great European tradition of design." We are thus...
William Tudor Gardiner '14, member of the Board of Overseers and former Governor of Maine, will be toastmaster for the occasion. Speeches will be given by William, J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, Roger B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and Master of Eliot House, and by J. Robert Haley '36, captain elect of football...