Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italians. "The lesson which the Italians must take to heart is ... that a second-class Power cannot be built into a master race by rhetoric, grimaces, blackmail and castor oil, and that attempts to ride to conquest on the coattails of others will end in humiliation and disaster no matter which of the major contestants wins...
Collectors have long been interested in such huge, gay sheets. Good poster items currently bring as much as $200. The poster master, Toulouse-Lautrec, had no need of funds either from advertisers or collectors. His father was so well heeled that he could afford such eccentricities as an otter hunt, in Canadian costume, in the streets of Paris...
...master of bureaucratic politics. When able Norman Armour, Ambassador to Argentina, was mentioned for Under Secretary, State Department officials shook their heads, said he would never make the grade. The reason: Armour is ''too friendly with everyone...
...became the master of ceremonies of radio's Information Please, for which he reportedly gets $1,500 a week. He lectured widely, for fat fees. He edited I Believe (1939) and Reading I've Liked (1941). He bought stock in a wine company. With his two brothers, Edwin and William, he operates a flourishing radio talent agency, Fadiman Associates, Ltd. He is on the editorial committee of The Readers Club, a book-of-the-monthly sort of organization that deals in $1.25 classics. Estimates of his income go as high as $100,000 a year, beside which...
Chekhov was a master of the art of writing "mood" stories; but his moods were always rooted deep in the fertility of human souls. These flashing, strange stories of Miss Welty's are about as human as a fish...