Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highest scorer in circuit games with 59 points and a total of 89 for the season. Captain of the Freshman five a year ago, Lutz has more than fulfilled expectations. Although this is his first year in Varsity competition, in every game he has been the outstanding dribbler and master ball-handler on the floor...
...reputation for sticking at nothing, only one thing more was needed to make Adam's apples bob in Austrian throats. Also at the snuggery, panicky Austrians learned, was the German who was suspected in the U. S. during the War of implication in the Black Tom explosion, the master schemer and intrigant German Ambassador to Austria Franz von Papen...
King Carol's is not a master mind, but His Majesty saw clearly enough that Octavian Goga could no longer conceivably win the Rumanian election scheduled for March. Everyone else in Rumania saw this too, and although only a few thought the King had "planned it that way," none was surprised when Carol II dismissed Premier Goga with curt, characteristic Balkan ruthlessness, abruptly snapping: "I want your resignation...
Andre Breton and Paul Eluard, the exhibition gave ample evidence of the continuing fertility of such Surrealists as Photographer Man Ray, Sculptor Hans Arp. Painters Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy, and especially Salvador Dali. That dapper master of mystification was represented not only by the flivver group at the entrance but by paintings ranging from Le grand masturbateur (1929)10 Telephone aphrodisiaque...
...Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," bold title of a play full of bold surprises and shocks, proves that its innovating poet and author in also a master of drama. The play in dramatic because it centers about a great problem seeking its solution in the career of a heroic figure. The problem in that of assertion of self as against self-effacing participation in a greater cause; of acting as against suffering...