Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...items labeled "Mother" (fleet Italian swallow) and "Toad" (Boston or Bust). Does the Miscellany editor have a pending file that will remind him to find out whether Teddy actually gets home again in April 1941? (Such a smart toad might reason that he is better off in California-his master would just take him to some outlandish place again.) Please. R. T. GRIFFITH Pittsburgh...
...heavy blow to morale though that would be if it fell-as on the whereabouts and condition of Poland's remaining divisions. If they could form their mass of maneuver, as the French did around Paris, and strike at the separated advancing German armies, they might accomplish a master counterblow. If that did not work, there were still the rains to hope for and the Allied pressure at Germany's back...
...President Viscount ("Czecho-Slovakia") Runciman of the Board of Trade, for which Mr. Cross has been Parliamentary Secretary. By trade a merchant-banker, six-foot Ronald Cross has before now earned personal preferment as high as Vice-Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household in 1937. As lord-master of neutral shipping, he will now be a key war figure, with Viscount Cecil's record to shoot...
...obtain our cooperation in preventing her imminent rout as the master of Europe it appears that Great Britain must effect a settlement of her huge unpaid balance on the War debt since this unpaid debt apparently makes the Johnson Act applicable...
...picture at home and to him it looked strangely like some of the Leonardos he had seen. He fetched it to Milan, showed it to such experts as Adolfo Venturi. It did not take the experts long to know it for the work of "a great Tuscan master of the Renaissance." nor much longer to announce last week that it will be hung in the da Vinci exhibition as, in all probability, the master's long-lost and long-sought Madonna with...