Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What I do advocate is that Americans should learn enough of German history and politics to realize the truth: that Hitler and the Nazis are merely the latest and most hysterical expression of the century-old master race obsession of the German people and their resulting mania for world conquest...
...example, no ordinary word mangler. There are manglers galore in show business, but Jimmy has a poet's ear for the mot injuste ("Let me hear that high note, maestro ! . . . What a note ! . . . A promissory note, if I ever heard one!'") And Jimmy is a past master of timing-that comedian's sine qua non. In the grand old days of the comedy team of (Lou) Clayton, (Eddie) Jackson and Durante, which broke up in 1931, Jimmy led them in a repertory of nightclub shenanigans (elaborately punctuated by a disreputable-looking jazz band) which spiraled into...
...duty: For Hagg, none other . . . sources near the new muster-master intimate he will be shovin' off for the mine sweeping racket again . . . Understand, that's purely tentative, old man . . . Another possible change in the regimental setup, they say, would send O'Connor to Fisher's Island on probationary status . . . Sounds fantastic, of course, but it's fannin' the breeze anyway . . . I didn't believe it myself . . . of course, though you can ask some of the guys in the first platoon; they started it . . . And, confidentially, I think that's a lot of bull about O'Connor slapping Hansen...
...marching into a fragment of Poland, toward Rumania, toward the Baltic States. The border of Germany proper, at its nearest, still lay 340 miles across the buffer lands. But of pre-1939 Russia the Wehrmacht now held a slipping grasp on approximately 200,000 square miles; once it was master of 527,000 square miles of Russia...
...first Vanderbilt Cup Auto Race (the winner averaged 52 m.p.h.), in World War I commanded the U.S.S. Tarantula with the hand of a longtime yachtsman. Famed as the footloose owner of the $3,000,000 diesel yacht Alva (his 1941 gift to the Navy), he studied hard for his master's papers, and could legally have skippered a Queen Mary in any ocean...