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Word: masterful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S piece [June 5] "Springtime in Europe" under Foreign News demonstrates in unique fashion the truth in the old adage that good work - within even such exacting limits as are set by its almost incommensur able weekly journalistic aim - brings out the master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1939 | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...through a typhoon, her speed slowed to six knots. From the Sea Dragon Captain Welch radioed to Dale Collins, executive officer of the President Coolidge: Southerly gales, Squalls. Lee rail under water. Hard tack. Bully beef. Wet bunks. Having wonderful time. Wish you were here instead of me. Welch, Master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Last Adventure | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

When the dancing master, who is rarely a taxpayer or a respectable man, but often a low libertine, first puts his leprous arms about her, the crimson comes to her cheeks, and she shrinks from his embrace. She is soon reassured . . . The blush, God's danger signal, soon disappears, and also too often forever. The innate sense of modesty receives a shock, and one of the God-given barriers is gone. Many pure and noble young girls are, at first, all unconscious of the nature of the pleasuretey derive from the ballroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland House Reform Group Regards Dancing as Sex Orgy | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...only dispenses legal advice, but sometimes signs State papers in the Dickinson name. Himself and Colleague Moyer he modestly characterizes as "just a couple of fellows hanging on to the public tit." Other Dickinson indispensables include: smooth, young Secretary Leslie Butler-who siphons callers so carefully into his master's office that the Detroit Citizens' League once complained: "Honest citizens can't get in" -and Personal Secretary Margaret Shaw, whom, the Governor says, God sent him. ("I know there is a girl in my office answering letters in exactly the language I would use. I snooped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Governor and God | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

William Walker, called "Singin' Billy," was an itinerant singing master who made the rounds of hundreds of singing schools in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singin1 Billy's Book | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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