Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bill Lutz has a master's affection for the shells which he makes in the workshop in the Weld Boathouse across the river. "I'm turning out three craft this year," he said. "Two new 'lights' took to the water this fall, and the Number 15 model will be ready in the spring. I usually only make two shells a year. A good boat will last about 16 years. Then sometimes we give them to Prep schools before they are that...
...down a tortuous slope to the dead body. There he squatted, howled until a rescue party, guided by the sound, came. Baring his short sharp teeth, growling and snarling, he kept at bay for an hour these men who he supposed had come to harm his dead master. Hastily summoned, the valet of Count Széchényi at last soothed and called off Printz. That night he planted himself on stumpy, determined legs beside his master's bier, had to be leashed and dragged away when the morticians came...
Wary of prodigies, critics were specially wary of Master Farjeon because in explaining his career to date his mother mentioned "Mother" Stoner. The latter, a Mrs James B. Stoner, appeared some years ago out of Norfolk, Va., with a militant theory for making geniuses out of bright children and with a precocious daughter, who had learned to typewrite at the age of three, to substantiate the theory. "Mother" Stoner founded "the Natural Education System," dabbled in Esperanto, attacked Mother Goose as "unquestionably evil" and set up an establishment in Tuckahoe, N. Y. It was at "Mother" Stoner's in Tuckahoe...
Newsgatherers found Master Farjeon quite a normal, small boy, however. He could play with other children; he would eat his meals. He had studied music for two years only. His mother was an actress (Claribel Fontaine), his father an actor (Herbert Farjeon) and his great-great-uncle was actor Joseph Jefferson. That might explain without undue "forcing" some of his immature thirst for Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky "and specially Mozart." Besides the "Hiawatha" setting he had written only an Indian war dance, a "Suite of Characteristics" and a "Rhapsody in Red." The latter, he said, was "after the idea...
Professor McDougall is ranked among the foremost psychologists of the world. He obtained his degree of Master of Arts at Oxford and shortly afterwards became a member of the British. Society of Psychical Research. In 1898 he was made a reader in mental philosophy at Oxford, becoming a Fellow of Corpus Christ College...