Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Alexander sighed-if he ever did-for more worlds to conquer, moralists have delighted to croak of heroes able td master their enemies but not themselves. Such a clay-footed hero seemed to have appeared in Poland when Marshal Josef Pilsudski seized the Government (TIME, May 24). Hesitant, irresolute, he could not bring himself to accept the responsibility either of ruling Poland as a dictator or of heading the State as Premier. Instead he temporized, forced the Sejm to elect one Ignatz Moscicld President of Poland and to confirm the puppet Cabinet of Premier Bartel. Since then Marshal Pilsudski...
...Hutchinson comes of Lakeland stock, though his home is actually in Cambridge. His father, Mr. Arthur Hutchinson, F.R.S., is or was till lately Tutor of Pembroke, and his uncle, Sir Arthur Shipley is, Master of Christ's. It was to this college, the Alma Mater of Milton and Darwin, that Mr. Hutchinson himself went, when three years ago he first came to Cambridge. Here he has studied history with a viger and an earnestness that sometimes dismays his friends who try to lure him away to coffee in the middle of the morning. One of his first recorded utterances...
...through the summer the good yacht Mayflower had waited for the return of her master. Last week he came back-and with Mrs. Coolidge and a dozen guests, they sailed down the Potomac River. Among those on board were: Secretary of the Treasury Mellon; Richard V. Oulahan, distinguished chief of the New York Times staff in Washington, and Mrs. Oulahan; William Hard, free lance journalist, and Mrs. Hard; Mrs. Sheppard, wife of Senator Sheppard of Texas...
LENZ ON BRIDGE-Sidney S. Lenz -Simon & Schuster ($2). The famed Messrs. Whitehead, Work and Foster bow unhesitantly to Mr. Sidney Lenz as exalted grand master and court of last resort at the green baize. "He is," says Mr. Whitehead, "undoubtedly the most remarkable card player the world has ever seen." Realizing that he can see his championship calibre friends almost any day at the club, Mr. Lenz has written his book for the people that ask who dealt, as well as for dollar-a-pointers. It is complete from cut to shuffle, with an extension course for graduate finessers...
...broad upper valley of the Sacramento. Herds of pedigree cattle browsed its meadows. Orchards bowed with tons of fruit. Gardens of European truck spread for acres, efficiently irrigated. The cavalcade passed through many a village of Sutter's clean Kanaks slaves. Flowers smothered the walls of the master's hacienda where a feast waited-salmon trout, venison, bear's paws, crocodile pears-served on Spanish plate by girls from the Sandwich Isles while a Hawaiian orchestra played the "Marseillaise," the "Berne March...