Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week in the form of a record made in England by Columbia. Gershwin-King of Rhythm is distinguished by sweet & low singing of The Man I Love by Hildegarde, tremolo rendering of a Gershwin tune on the harmonica by Larry Adler, and the cultivated, funereal tones of an English master of ceremonies paying tribute to the composer in odd counterpoint to the smooth, Hebrew melodies of the Jazz King. While this curio was being put on sale in Manhattan phonograph shops, one of the least sentimental and most interesting events in the commemoration of George Gershwin since his death...
...find that they were entitlednks, sending money abroad to Lenin & Trotsky, crisp banknotes which the go-between Litvinoff carried in his little satchel. In 1918, during the civil war with the White Russians, pugnacious Disciple Stalin, describing the difficulties of keeping his Communist troops together, wrote to the Master Lenin: "I drive and scold everyone who needs...
...Master of Dunster House introduces the number with a sufficiently magisterial, yet eminently readable, article on "Revolution in Brazil." The leading articles are terminated by the attempt of a less widely known authority from the same House to deminstrate that, behind the radical whiskers, lurks J. M. Keynes, a conservative defender of capitalism...
With the words, "No, we don't say Grace here," Julian L. Coolidge, '96, Master of Lowell House, seated approximately 300 men for President Lowell's eighty-first birthday dinner, held last evening in the House dining hall...
Dean Ralph Dennis of Northwestern University's School of Speech awarded to Charlie McCarthy, No. i U. S. dummy, the honorary degree of Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback. The citation: "He is ... a prince of parasites, violent in company, churlish in behaviour, acid in conversation, wooden-faced in all relationships, and in all other aspects a typical product of higher learning in America...