Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...papers. His Robinson Crusoe was the greatest and most enjoyable journalistic hoax in history. His accounts of London fires, plagues, streetwalkers, ghosts and insect pests would be welcome copy for any Sunday supplement. When Reporter Defoe went to Scotland in 1706 to spy out political sentiment for his secret master, Secretary of State Robert Harley, he improved his time by picking up believe-it-or-not tales of a bridge over a dry river (between Glasgow and Sterling), of fishermen who killed porpoises with a sock on the nose...
Graduated from Yale, where he was Phi Beta Kappa, in 1909, Moses received his Master's degree from Oxford two years later and wrote his doctoral dissertation in political science at Columbia...
Recognizing Jaeger's attainments in the fields of classical literature, philology, archaeology, and philosophy, the University conferred an honorary Litt, D. degree on him at the Tercentenary Celebration in 1936 with the citation "A critical student of the great master who once dominated the universities, an eminent teacher of the eternal wisdom of Aristotle...
...announcer's patent-leather voice was gliding over the air-waves. He spoke in a voice that was hushed with respect. "Music by Chopin . . arranged by Liszt . . . played by Paderewski!" And then the Master began to let his fingers ripple up and down the keyboard with a technique and tone that captivated the countless thousands of Harvard men tuned in at the moment. But many a listener heard at one time or another during the program a slowly increasing buzz. Was the immortal Paderewski executing a deft tremolo with the lower tones? Was the discord a modernistic tone-poem...
...ready for photographing. It is in this exhibit that the startling simplicity and clarity of the work is best brought out, the infinite and delicate use of detail, and the extraordinarily expressive quality of the animals and other figures. Every one of the artists cooperating with Disney is a master draughtsman in his own right. The drawing is uniformly fine as is shown in the sheet of animal figures and in the background work for "Snow White," or in Donald Duck trying to open a package. Characterization has also reached just as high a place as may be seen...