Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zigzag Progress. The right-hand-men of Joseph Stalin have seldom known what his left-hand-men were doing, and vice versa, but the Dictator has been the clear-headed master of Communist Parties all over the world since he became the master of Russia. His famed "zigzag methods." much criticized in private by Communists, have an inner consistency; i.e. he is out to see that Stalin and Russia come out as nearly on top as possible...
Hard J. Stalin is not to be taken that way often. If he means what his Moscow loudspeaker shouted last week, then this is because the Master of Russia is convinced, after Munich, that the enemies of Russia can be held at bay only by subsidizing revolution in their capitalist rear...
...done in a brilliance of color and a gush of technique which suggested the ebullitions of a talented school girl. Explained tanned, bright-eyed, wisecracking Artist Picabia, with an air of deep subtlety: "I painted them because I wanted to." Picabia enthusiasts spoke in awed tones of the master's daring in risking banality by a return to nature. But a growing number of critics called it reversion to type, dismissed Picabia's middle period as the intellectual shenanigans of a brilliant amateur...
...Lady Vanishes (Gaumont British) exhibits Director Alfred Hitchcock, Eng land's portly master of melodrama, at the top of his form. The ingredients of Hitch cock pictures rarely vary much. They include a beautiful English girl, a some what bewildered hero, several international spies, a code and a journey, preferably by train...
...Bathhouse John") Coughlin. 78, since 1892 a Chicago alderman and political power; of pneumonia; in Chicago. A onetime Turkish bath rubber. Bathhouse John saved his tips, opened an establishment of his own. managed to get a grip on the vote of the First Ward, never lost it. A master of personal publicity, he was equally famed for rhymed doggerel (which Chicago newshawks ghosted for him), bright waistcoats, a string of race horses which lost consistently...