Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidents, twelve have been known Masons: George Washington (Past Master), James Monroe, Andrew Jackson (Grand Master), James K. Polk (Royal Arch), James Buchanan (Past Master), Andrew Johnson (32nd Degree), James A. Garfield (14th Degree), William McKinley (Knight Templar), Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, Warren G. Harding (33rd Degree), Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd Degree). (Whether Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were Masons is a moot question...
When the U. S. again goes to war, three master agencies will rise overnight in Washington: 1) a Selective Service Administration, to draft man power; 2) a War Resources Administration, to draft and rule industry for the duration; 3) a Public Relations Administration, to mold the mass U. S. mind to the uses of war. Last week the top personnel of the Resources Administration was selected...
...walked off (an eye-witness said) "chatting with each other as though they had shot only a pig or a dog." The body of Sergeant James B. Montague of the U. S. Marines was found shot and bloated in the Whangpoo River at Shanghai. Nanking's British Harbor Master was killed, too, and one French and one Italian Roman Catholic priest...
...warnings of hell fire kept the fireless meeting house at York Village, Maine, warm on even the coldest Sundays. Generous to a fault, he once gave away his wife's only pair of shoes. Sturdy, he declined a salary, lived on "faith in his Divine Master" supplemented by the voluntary gifts of his flock. Paternal, he was called Father Moody, an appellation rare among Congregationalists. Intolerant as his era, he took along an ax when at 70 he sailed as chaplain of the 1745 expedition against Louisbourg, smashed the altars and images in that French fortress...
...works of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. This summer, bald, easygoing Author Wodehouse received an honorary D. Litt. from Oxford, drew plaudits for his style (TIME, July 10). Though many a lesser humorist has crept up behind the Wodehouse technique, tried to sprinkle salt on its tail, only the Old Master himself can really catch it. He does it by rewriting everything at least three times, concentrating and sharpening his effervescent prolixity. Thus revised, markedly improved since its serialization in the Satevepost last spring, is Uncle Fred in the Springtime...