Word: master
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Housemaster" is a gentle brew of sentiment and humor, and the latter ingredient is racy enough to make the play wholly charming. Ian Hay, the author, gives more or less of an autobiography, since he too has been a master in an English boarding school. The title character is the sort of person who flogs his charges for the sake of discipline, and then invites them over for Sunday dinner. He seasons his great portion of kindliness and human understanding with a splendid vein of gruffness and stingless sarcasm. He manages to preserve enough austerity to keep up the discipline...
...Widener's formal presentation, the Pennsylvania Museum put the painting on display, predicted proudly that "no person informed in the field of modern art will be able to miss the opportunity of seeing and studying a picture which has been described [by Critic Lionello Venturi] as 'the master invention of Cézanne's architectural imagination...
...Museum to come out to Lynnewood Hall for a look at his renowned Van Dycks, his Raphael Room, his magnificent Rembrandts. Upon these scenes of public congratulation and goodwill there dropped last week a large and sputtering bomb. It was tossed from nearby Merion, Pa., by one of the master bomb-throwers of the art world, none other than the terrible-tem-pered Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes, millionaire inventor of Argyrol and owner of the finest private collection of modern French paintings in the U. S. Dr. Barnes was incensed by the Museum's statement that "a second version...
...picture service in Manhattan, is now rated by Publisher Roy Wilson Howard as "one of the country's outstanding news photog-raphers." Two years ago, however, Jack Price angered clannish press photographers by writing in Editor & Publisher: "Photography is no longer the specialized profession, requiring many years to master. Any reporter can make a really good picture within a short time if he will give a little care and attention to a camera...
...Besides being a ubiquitous bird, an ace strategist and an untiring worker, he is a master technician with perfect control of the mechanisms that he operates. To the citizen who does not want his picture in print, the news photographer is Public Pain in the Neck No. 1; to others he is the symbol of opportunity. His body belongs to the city editor, he has no soul, and his life is lived between the pulmotor and Paradise. But without him all news would be colorless and the newspaper just a broad expanse of funereal type...