Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grocery was gobbled up by a supermarket. In quick succession, he became a singing waiter, a night-club master of ceremonies and a cheese salesman. Starting on Broadway in a play which failed to open, he proceeded to parts in six quick flops and a hit, Saroyan's Time of Your Life. This in turn led to his Hollywood start in a bit part with Hepburn and Tracy in Woman of the Year. He established himself in Wake Island. Greenwich Village is the first picture in which he has sung and danced. Next role: Captain Purvis in A Bell...
Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, immediately made the charge: "Troops overseas will have little chance to hear anything but their Master's Voice . . . the candidate for re-election ruled that his own speech was not political." Republicans grabbed up their own adjectives and leaped in. They demanded that the networks give Tom Dewey equal time; they were refused. The Army's about-face even prompted a protest from Franklin Roosevelt's staunch backer, Florida's Senator Claude Pepper. "Let all the candidates be heard by the troops," said-he. "The President will be able...
...Farther down the evil-smelling road a fridenly brown-&-white puppy whose master lay under a dead horse, begged us to play with him. We paased on, untied a cavalry horse whose rider lay near by, his legs drawn...
...democracy. Mencius (372-289 [?] B.C.). As honorary president of China Institute, the speech of acceptance at the dedication was made by famed Dr. H. H. Kung (A.B. Oberlin; A.M. Yale), Vice Premier and Finance Minister of China, 75th lineal descendant of Confucius (from K'ung Futse meaning "Master Kung...
Hitchcock was never like this. Given a plot and a cast as good as this picture offers, the rotund master of mystery would have turned out a film to tingle the spines of audiences in every corner of the globe, but Hitchcock did not direct this one and it shows it. Even luscious Barbara Stanwyck, a new and surprisingly good Fred MacMurray, and Edward G. Robinson at his best fail to save "Double Indemnity" from the bottomloss list of Hollywood's fumbled chances...