Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since then Mr. Millington-Drake has sent in return the "List of Etonians" already named, with inscriptions by Canon Lyttleton, head master of Eton during the years before and at the beginning of the War, and by the compiler of the volume...
...impossible to mention French orchestral music without taking notice of Hector Berlioz the very symbol of aesthetic romanticism. In music where be was preeminent, he was a brilliant, even an extravagant colorist; a master of the orchestra who painted in tone with the passionate emotionalism of genius. One of his works, the Overture to the "Roman Carnival" will be given this afternoon...
...weighty, ancient precedent. Moreover, not beyond fact is sainthood. There are two Negro saints. The better known is St. Benedict the Moor (called also the Blackamoor, the Black, the Negro). His parents were slaves in Sicily 400 years ago, and, proud, they refused to conceive children unless their master promised their first-born freedom. Thus was St. Benedict prenatally free. At 21 he joined the order of hermits of St. Francis. One day when the friars could not get food, because of a heavy fall of snow, Benedict filled several large vessels with water, and prayed all night...
...Menominee, Mich., one Prince, 35-pound collie, heard his master, Farmer Methad Dvoracek, screaming in the barn; bounded in, flung himself at a 1,500-pound bull which had Farmer Dvoracek cornered, prostrate and already gored; seized the bull's nose, hung on while being flailed about until a chunk of nose and the bull's ring tore away, leaped for another grip, drove the bull outdoors bellowing, bounded to the kitchen door, barked, led help to Farmer Dvoracek...
...effects of rabies are the same in animals or humans, making proper allowance for the beast's normal way of expressing itself. The first usual symptom in a dog is its abnormal affection. It feels something is wrong and tries to tell its master. It is restless, easily irritated, will snap at objects. Later its throat begins to become paralyzed.* The pain of swallowing even water is terrific. So it avoids water, giving reason for the name hydrophobia. It bites at things or other animals, sometimes so tenaciously that its jaws must be pried open. Saliva drools from...