Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was an abundance of talent as well as food and drink, and the program, carried along smoothly by the able efforts of master of ceremonies Skelton, was brought to a rousing strip-tease climax. Lieutenant Pradley's spirited rendition of the bare-it-all ballet was undoubtedly the hit of the evening...
...complete master of mobility, Chennault ducks and weaves with his air force until he gets at least equality in numbers in a given area, and then throws everything he has at the Japs. He stays awake nights planning new tactics, or studying combat reports to search for Jap weaknesses. The next morning he will be at his well-worn maps, talking about what he could do here & there if he had a few more planes...
Recently a genealogist toiled down the generations of the master's family and found a living collateral descendant, a peasant trudging behind his oxen in Italian fields. His name: Leonardo da Vinci...
...White Russian refugee, Huene lived in the Paris of the '20s. He was a movie extra, teashop waiter, once went to Poland as a railway-tie inspector for the Belgian Government. In Paris he finally took up his profession, working for Vogue. He speedily established himself as a master of deluxe and diaphanous effects. He moved to the U.S. in 1935, when he began photographing for Harper's Bazaar...
...tails and all, the M. & St. L. creaked along. It took the courts six and a half years - from the time a small creditor threw it into bankruptcy in 1923 - even to get around to ordering a foreclosure sale. Forty-two times Howard S. Abbott, Minneapolis master in chancery, solemnly offered the road for sale, heard no bids. But last year, while Abbott was sick abed, another master made the sale, and for some $2,000,000 the road's reorganization managers, Coverdale & Colpitts, transportation engineers, bought in its $79,000,000 of "assets." Last week the directors...