Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Burgess Meredith, as master of ceremonies, set the mood: "What we have to say seriously, can be simply said. It's this:Democracy is a good thing. It works. It may creak a bit, but it works. And in its working, it still turns out good times, good news, good people. . . . And so, Life, Liberty and most particularly the Pursuit of Happiness, of these we sing!" In the first few weeks: Ray Middleton sang Maxwell Anderson's How Can You Tell An American; the editor of the Randolph (Vt.) weekly Herald and News reported the first Vermont freeze...
Such a career argues more than a brilliant writer of comedy. It proclaims a past master of show business, who has learned every trick of the trade and invented many a new one. It proclaims an amazing foresight in always taking the pulse of Broadway as the clue to its heart, a habit of always writing fashionable plays and never revolutionary ones. It proclaims a playwright who has made sport of everything while never giving offense to anybody. It proclaims a really great practical theatre mind, with no philosophy except that the theatre is entertainment, and that good entertainment pays...
...been several times rich, several times poor. The family totem pole was the Wall Street Journal. Before his son Robert was out of high school, Father Rhea gave him the Journal's difficult William Peter Hamilton editorials on the Dow Theory of stock prices, told him to master them or get spanked...
...come within the scope of the Committee, who may remain outside? Stockyards mean unions, and unions mean possible Communists. One Party man on the Harvard Faculty might soon provide an opening for the Dies wedge, one radical on a magazine grounds for an expose. Mr. Dies has become past-master of an art on which all strong-men depend. Rather than investigating, he is condemning. Newspapers have become for him an instrument of blackmail--a Roman Forum from which he can read his list of proscription...
During his twelve years as master of the Kremlin few authentic anecdotes have been printed about mysterious, closelipped, Georgia-born Joseph Stalin. Last week able New York Times Correspondent Otto D. Tolischus, nosing about the three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) which have been taken under the Soviet Union's "protective" wing, picked up what he thought were some genuine ones that came out of Russia's recent Baltic negotiations...