Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Fraternity's headquarters, the Forum of Truth and the Center of Peace (a fairish-sized lecture room) in Manhattan's Steinway Hall. Mr. Schafer delivers four talks a week. Truth Students become Master Metaphysicians after studying more than a year and a half...
...went to 100 feet, then. drunkenly, it began to topple to earth. both motors roaring behind up-to-date full-feathering propellers. Queerly it hit, tail and left wing tip scraping the ground first, 1,000 yards beyond the airport. Like a flash experienced Pilot Walter Bullock cut his master switch to prevent fire. For 200 feet the ship furrowed along, straight for a 75-foot canyon, then hit a scrub oak, swung around and stopped. All the passengers but one sat strapped in their seats, bewildered, stunned, but alive. The eighth passenger, a woman, was hurled clear, died...
While the home life of "Babs" Hutton made tabloid headlines last week (see p. 16) the genus U. S. Society Girl made another kind of copy. At University of Chicago, sober, 25-year-old Mary Elaine Ogden, no Social Registerite, submitted a learned master's thesis: The Social Orientation of the Society Girl. Miss Ogden, who lives in Waterbury, Conn., made a laborious investigation of how the Society Girl is educated and with what results. Her report is almost as belittling as the magazine confessions of a deb gone commercial...
...upon a little Indian village by the side of a river. People said that he had once been interrupted when he was just on the point of raising an Indian from the dead, which gave him a useful reputation. He got to know the Indians in the village: the master of a pump station which pumped water through the jungle to a railroad depot; the pump master's wife, an aristocrat because she owned pots and pans; a young, handsome Indian named Perez; the Garcia family-old Garcia with a silky beard and a taste for music, his young...
...night the pump master bought two cases of beer, four cases of soda water and gave a dance in his front yard. The musicians got lost in the jungle but Garcia played the fiddle. It was a dark night. Manuel had brought Carlos a pair of tight, shiny shoes as a present from Texas. Carlos, used to running barefoot, slipped on a narrow bridge and fell into the river. When the boy was missed, the women wailed, the men put a consecrated candle on a piece of wood, let it float to midstream. Where it stopped, Perez dived and brought...