Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Undaunted at the absence of his old school tie, lost by a rival spot removery, the Plympton Street valet master appeared to have stepped from an authoritative, if slightly dog eared, page of Esquire. "Never fear," said Ben, "We will emerge from the New Haven vendetta by taking Yale to the Valeterias...
...Then I am your servant and no more your master. ... He who lays down his liberty in that act receives it back. Go down to Mother Kirk...
...chintz dressing room, Margaret put on her own makeup, straightened the folds in her voluminous white chiffon skirt. She was calm and confident. She had a master of orchestral accompaniment in balding Eugene Ormandy, conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and he had rehearsed her carefully...
James is on the chain of his boss, Sulzberger.* At the present time we cannot consider James's words as his own - they are really the voice of his master-owner - we hope he gets full freedom. But it will come to him only if he replaces Sulzberger as owner, or in case what he calls the Russian conception of press freedom triumphs everywhere...
Down to Earth (Columbia). In Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941), a suave master of celestial ceremonies helped the soul of a dead prize fighter to inhabit the body of a surviving one, with happy results in the ring and at the movie box office. This time Mr. Jordan reaches higher for heavenly intervention, and escorts it a bit lower. The rosy shade of Terpsichore (Rita Hay-worth), outraged by a Broadway work-in-progress called Swinging the Muses, comes down to earth and gets into the act. She immediately dances herself into the lead of the show, and into...