Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Earl of Halifax, who once said that he would rather be Master of Fox Hounds than Prime Minister, prepared to set out on a tour of the U.S. Southwest, looked forward to a ride to hounds in the best Oklahoma tradition-a wolf hunt...
...days. In Kiel auditorium, she sang 24 songs (only one from Wagner). On Sunday she took her oldtime seat in the loft of the jampacked Pilgrim Congregational Church. Miss Traubel refused to walk down the aisle with the choir, but in excellent voice soloed, O Master, Let Me Walk with Thee...
...Want to Go Back." In Hollywood, meanwhile, the great master of the prewar French cinema, Rene Clair, summed things up for himself and his fellow expatriates, Jean Renoir and Julien Duvivier: "I want to go back. You can make films you can't make here. People in America go to the theater to see people, not ideas...
...born a statesman. At 17 he was a friend, on a plane of intellectual equality, of the Royal Governor of Virginia. At 24 he was one of the five most prosperous lawyers in the colony. At 26, the builder of Monticello was the master of broad acres, honored by the British Government, a member of the House of Burgesses. At 33, the author of the Declaration of Independence was, with Washington and Franklin, one of the few Americans who belonged on any list of the world's great...
Like many another businessman, 39-year-old Master Promoter Robert Lawver Smith scarcely knew a chrysanthemum from a moss rose. But he did know that flowers could be sold. With that information, plus $125,000 and the merchandising experience gained as general manager of the tabloid Los Angeles Daily News (a job he still holds), Smith charged last year into the flower business. It took him just seven months to become the No. 1 combination grower-wholesaler-retailer in the nation's $300,000,000 floral industry...