Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That chop was the beginning, perhaps, of an Economy Congress. Or perhaps it was the fall of a fresh, young, oat-feeling Congress into the trap of a master politician. Franklin Roosevelt certainly did not worry unduly, knowing that in this era of a Permanently Unbalanced Budget, Congress would have a hard time taking his dare to economize generally-on pensions, Social Security, national defense...
Heywood Broun 10, nationally known columnist and president of the American Newspaper Guild will be master of ceremonies. Governor Saltonstall, Governor Murphy of New Hampshire, and Mayor Tobin of Boston are a few of the political figures who have made their reservations...
Only witness to the Don's descent into Hell was his scalawag servant, Leporello, word was no more trustworthy than his master's. Doña Ana, her suitor Don Ottavio and Leporello set off for Juan's country home, to tell Juan's father of his son's strange death. On the way Leporello disappears. Doña Ana suspects him of having invented the whole story. Sure enough, first Leporello, then Juan himself reappears. It seems that Juan had merely had a bad case of nettle rash, which marred his handsome face...
Perry G. E. Miller, assistant professor and resident tutor in History and Literature presided in the absence of Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Master of the House. J. Spence Harvin, chairman of the House committee gave Jackson a humidor as a gift from the undergraduate members of Leverett House, and the poetry-writing janitor was also presented with a testimonial bearing the Rabbit escutcheon and the signatures of the 300 diners. Jackson had been janitor of the House since it was founded eight years...
...same alert, thoroughbred look, the same wavy hair. He lives in a gamekeeper's cottage near Stowe, where he is now writing his ninth book, on falconry. Best passages in The Sword in the Stone are the descriptions of sporting events: a boar hunt in which the master huntsman's dog is cruelly killed, the pursuit of an escaped falcon which is deep in the molt and not in yarak (proper condition for flying...