Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later, Fala's master, heeding the urging of his physician, headed south for a two-week rest. Along went the President's military legman, Admiral William D. Leahy, and military and naval aides. Said the White House announcement: "The President will devote himself exclusively to relaxation in fresh air and sunshine...
...time world's largest retailer of luxury cars (Manhattan's Uppercu Cadillac Corp.); after a long illness; in Manhattan. The fair-haired, blue-eyed Chicagoan closed his law books in 1896 to work as a Duryea automobile mechanic, in 1931 after 29 years as Cadillac's master salesman sold out to General Motors...
Thanks to Lt. Beackham's pointed reception of last week's guest columnist "The Bag" is back in its place. After witnessing a three hour dissertation on senility by the master, now nearing four years and twenty, all potential contributors weighed their 90 averages against the clamor of a well-read public, and have reneged "till the smoke clears." But we advocates of a free press stand in open defiance, from behind our cloak of anonymity, of course...
...past master of the seven lively journalistic arts, Captain Joseph Patterson, publisher of the New York Daily News, last week gave a beautiful performance of buck-passing, ducking, bobbing and weaving. The cartoonist's pen was held by Clarence Daniel Batchelor, but the hand that guides the pen is Publisher Patterson's. On the day Batchelor drew the cartoon the Daily News: 1) covered the world's battlefronts in 90¾ column inches of type; 2) devoted 184¼ in. to six crime and sex stories. To the Daily News (circ. 2,000,000), Russia was worth...
...published a Penguin paperbook about it in England.* It has about 3,000 words, largely of Latin and Greek roots, and a simple syntax on the Chinese style. Intelligent high-school graduates, says Bodmer, might learn to write and speak it in far less time than is required to master English, French or German...