Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never, in all of the years of their relationship, did the Master use those profane words ["Quick, Watson, the needle!"] to his Boswell. His addiction to drugs was an early and passing phenomenon, inspired by boredom and abandoned in the maturity of his years. . . . But even in the days when the needle lay beside the gasogene and tantalus, Holmes did not stoop to call for it in such undignified terms...
...Chicago and general editor of the Chicago University Press, Jordan is the second male to head the all-girl school. Besides having taught here from 1931 to 1937 and at Radcliffe from 1934 to 1937, the incoming president has had still other connections with Cambridge for he received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Harvard and his wife, Frances Ruml Jordan, was dean of Radcliffe from...
...material, mingling old & new Russia, Chauve-Souris of 1943 moseys along agreeably, but never gets anywhere. It lacks everything exciting: the tune that can make a show, the performer that can stop one, the pace that can keep one spinning, the verve that can make one soar. As master of ceremonies, Producer Greanin has almost as heavy an accent as Balieff had, but he has not nearly so .light a touch...
Rebirth at South Hadley. With Desjardins dead and his abbey reported restored to the Cistercian monks (who had sold it in the early 1900s), Mount Holyoke's crisp, French-fluent Professor Helen Elizabeth Patch last year suggested that her old Sorbonne master, Gustave Cohen, and fellow refugees of New York's Ecole Libre des Hautes Etudes might enjoy some summer days at her college...
...Monstrous Pun. Like the late James Joyce, O'Nolan is a master of the monstrous pun. Erudite, ironic, he devotes many a column to the hilarious systematic destruction of literary cliches, to parodies of Eire's leprechaun literature and the red-taped verbiage of Government service, to absurd home-economics hints. He is an unsparing, beloved critic of devotees of Irish, who overuse Eire's national tongue; a subtler critic of the clerics, who are not unaware of his innuendo and high irony...