Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hiroshige shaved his head, became a Buddhist novice. But he kept on traveling and making prints of the sights of Japan (Thirty-Six Views of Fuji, etc.). Eleven years later, mortally sick with cholera, the master wrote a cheerful poem to celebrate his departure to the Buddhist Heaven...
...minutes they spent on company property before their paid shifts began and after they ended, a total of up to 56 minutes a day. Detroit's Federal Judge Frank A. Picard, able and conscientious, thought the question was not so simple. He appointed a special master to find out what the workers...
...United States. ... It seems that nothing but catastrophe can check the furious progress of Americans into a still more bleak and dangerous desert of technology than they have reached now. The very vastness of the apparatus their genius has created stands over them like a strange and terrible master. Every man, as Sophocles said years ago, loves what he has made himself. Canadians have as yet fallen in love with no such Frankenstein. And, as a resuit of this, our future is more clearly in our own hands. . . . Socialism in the United States, if it comes, might easily be totalitarian...
There was also a homesickness for Milhaud in Paris, where his music is being widely played. Said the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, once of Paris' Left Bank, during a 1945 trip to Europe: "All musical France hopes [for] the return of its master. . . . There is a vacancy in the center of the stage." Milhaud, so crippled that he walks painfully with two canes, finds the California climate healthier than Paris, but says "I need to go back ... in Europe there are more possibilities...
...takes his cloak and we walked together down till we came pretty near home, when I saw my mother in the street with another woman. . . . My mother, spying of us, says to the other woman, 'Here come Master Debase with a Fleming. It may be they may bring some news of Ned, she little knowing I was he. The old man bid me say nothing, he being pleased at the conceit [joke]. When we came to my mother, she looked on me, but knew me not, but asked the old man if he could tell no news...