Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same bluntness was bound to alienate many Indians before he had mounted the throne. Indians could-and did-point out that a starving India could be neither an efficient base nor a willing ally. With no real evidence as yet, they were already branding him as another imperialist whipping master. And many Britons at home, horrified at the failure of the Raj to control the famine, were loud-voiced for the release of the Congress leaders jailed by Linlithgow, the removal of Indian Secretary Leopold Amery...
...Dick Powell, Franchot Tone and the other players lather it on, True To Life is likable, sometimes genuinely laughable. Surest laugh-getter is Victor Moore. His catastrophic demonstration of "breakfast made easy," is a cute enough kidding of rampant gadgetry to recall the alltime master, Buster Keaton.' Nearly as satisfying is the Sudsy-Suds jingle, as mooed by a male quartet. Its clinch line nails the prospect with: "It's de-lish...
...Pushed the New York Herald's critic: "This extraordinary being-this Ole Bull-will produce an excitement throughout he Republic unlike anything that ever took place in our day. He is young-unmarried [sic]-tall and elegantly formed -as beautiful as the Apollo. . . ." One reporter asked Ole what master he had studied under. Said Ole, with a serene stare: "God, the Infinite!" At a Washington concert a Congressman from Alabama rose in the midst of one of Ole's improvisations and shouted: "None of your highfalutin, but give us Hail Columbia, and bear hard on the treble...
...takes up with a traveling peddler and his charming little trick dog, Toots. She fights off a pair of robbers, escapes some dog-catchers by a crippling leap from an upstairs window, completes her hundreds of miles of faithful cross-country just in time to greet her young master just as he gets out of school. The meeting is an unusually valid bit of tear jerking...
...balladry, Kipling was an unsurpassable modern master. Eliot points out "his singleness of intention in attempting to convey no more to the simple minded than can be taken in on one reading or hearing," points out further his virtuosity at carrying out and varying this intention: "There is no poet who is less open to the charge of repeating himself." In Danny Deever, as in dozens of other ballads, "there is no single word or phrase which calls too much attention to itself, or which is not there for the total effect." Besides a talent for the ballad, Kipling...