Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilder has rewritten an old Viennese farce with no thought of streamlining it. The scene of The Merchant of Yonkers is Manhattan in the '80s. but old as the European theatre is the plot of the sweated apprentices who sneak off for a holiday, of their miserly old master (Percy Waram) on the hunt for a wife, and of the obliging Mrs. Fixit (Jane Cowl) who fixes things to suit herself. The slapstick is the same that, 200 years ago. drew tears of laughter from simple London cits and beefy German burghers: mistaken identity, boys dressed up as girls...
...named Charles O'Brien died at the age of 22. He was 8 ft. 4 in. tall. A curious physician bought his body for $2,500, dissected the head, found a pituitary gland almost as big as a hen's egg. Modern endocrinologists regard it as the "master gland" of the body...
...Advancement of Science held its winter convention in Richmond, Va. With an attendance of 7,000 and 1,800 papers to be presented, the multiple preoccupations of science had to share the spotlight. On hand to see that the pituitary got its share of attention, however, was a pituitary master: Dr. Oscar Riddle of the Carnegie Institution's Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island...
...hormones secreted by the larger front lobe make the pituitary the "master gland." Yet no one knows just what or how many hormones the front lobe secretes. The trouble is that-although a few front lobe hormones have been freed of all but small traces of impurities-a living body's response under test may be due not to the hormone tested but to an "impurity...
Brahms Song Society, Volume I (Alexander Kipnis, bass, Gerald Moore, pianist; Victor: 12 sides). Fourteen of Brahms's best-known Lieder, including the Vier ernste Gesänge, sung by an acknowledged master...