Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred and fifty-six of the 260 royal domestics have joined the Civil Servants Union, which is now negotiating with the Trades Union Congress for affiliation. In collective bargaining with His Majesty's servants, Sir Ulick Alexander, the Keeper of the Privy Purse, and Sir Piers Legh, the Master of the King's Household, will represent the King...
Peering over his horn-rimmed spectacles at a packed-in New Lecture Hall audience last evening, Lord Lindsay of Birker, Master of Oxford's Balliol College and Labor Party peer, said Russia on the one hand and America and England on the other are not, as some think, in utter disagreement; for on one point, they meet on common ground: each thinks the other's conception of democracy is "preposterous nonsense...
...Rome to study for the priesthood. Four years after his ordination, King Alexander unexpectedly approved him as successor to the Archbishop. He took office in 1937. No sycophant, the new Archbishop repeatedly urged his royal benefactor to abolish the royal dictatorship. Later, Archbishop Stepinac lashed out at the Nazi "master race" idea and condemned the execution of hostages as "inhuman and anti-Christian...
Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales (in 1876), Gwen John preferred Paris. There she divided her life between painting in her monastic quarters and praying in a Roman Catholic chapel around the corner. Poet Rainer Maria Rilke lent her books now & then, and she corresponded with "Dear Master" Neo-Thomist Jacques Maritain, but her only constant company was cats. She was careful to remember the cats in her will...
...long, young Clarke became picture editor of Manhattan's first "picture newspaper." He left for an eight-year stretch on the World, skipped back in 1930 before the World's end, stepped into his father's old job in 1939. Patterson turned him into a past master of the devious techniques of tabloid journalism...