Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...having his own party toss a yataghan 15 blocks up Pennsylvania Avenue and put it squarely in between his shoulder blades. Reason: unlike the battle over the Supreme Court plan, the battle over the Reorganization Bill involved no major issue except whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt was still the master of his party. Until the final votes were counted, the President was reasonably sure...
Among the many problems David M. Little '17 will face next fall when he becomes the new Master of Adams House will be reconciling two members in the Senior Common Room, for it is no deep secret in whispering corners that Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate tutor, has protested Granville Hicks' residence in the House next year...
...eyelid, or in unjustified hauteur. No dollar bills, no returned quarters. James or William, the chauffeurs, know that today their passengers will walk the customary four or five blocks on Commonwealth Avenue or Tremont Street before the car is to cruise tactfully past and pick them up last the master's shoe begin to pinch his corn. But, under pain of dismissal, not until the world and the photographers have noted madam's attire...
...heights of beauty rarely heard in any music old or new. Although Kodaly wrote this work for a national Hungarian festival, there seem to be no definite Hungarian traits in the music. His style is, rather cosmopolitan. To speak of the weaknesses first, this modern composer is not a master of the fugue. His individual lines are strong and clean, but he is sloppy in combining them...
Little replaces Professor James P. Baxter 3rd, who resigned last year to become President of Williams College. During the fall and winter Raphael Demos, assistant professor of Philosophy, was Acting Master of Adams House...