Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...week an itinerant newsgatherer unearthed this autograph, sent news of it humming over the cables. Signor Mussolini's intimates, not displeased, reminded his detractors that even as a bricklayer and before that as a hod-carrier, the young Benito revealed the titanic spiritual vigor which later made him master of Italy. Few are possessed of so little "hindsight" that they cannot detect the hand of the present Dictator in a letter which the hodman wrote to a fellow laborer on Sept. 3, 1902. "Dear Friend, "On Saturday, together with a painter out of employment, I went to Orbe...
...This Is Paris (Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller). Long has Director Ernst Lubitsch been acknowledged master of film comedy. Working with an ordinary plot, he has now excelled himself. Hubby's innocent little lies, wifey's tiny peccadillos grow into impressive embarrassments. The originality displayed in screening this commonplace business assures a pleasant surprise for cynics who have resigned themselves to the belief that the only formula for film fun is custard pie and an abused Ford...
...makes no bones about his ignorance of philosophy. Pinochle is his favorite game, and he addresses his butler as "Babe." It is said that this butler has irritated Mrs. Estelle Taylor Dempsey. A thin figure with splayed hands and a broken nose, he moves about the halls of his master's California house with the short, wary footstep that one learns in the ring. He and Dempsey teamed together in the days when trainmen booted them off freights. Those days are long ago for Dempsey; his critics declare that he has softened; it is true. How could...
...vain," shouted the master of Italy, "did others try to steal the glory. ... I want to say in a voice of thunder that, Italy, it was you who were responsible for this glory!" He wished to recognize "with Roman justice" the merit of Nobile and his men, because "you, an Italian, planned the ship; you, an Italian, with other Italians, built it; and you, an Italian, with other Italians, wisely guided it to the end of the extraordinary voyage...
...Coolidge ought to be grateful, for the seeming warehouse is really a newspaper office, and the baldish prophet is no obscure, senile wiseacre; he is Arthur Brisbane, able journalist. A machine invented by Thomas Alva Edison listens attentively to Mr. Brisbane's remarks; a respectful secretary transcribes his master's voice into typewritten copy; and the New York American, the Chicago Herald-Examiner, the San Francisco Examiner and many another newspaper owned by Publisher Hearst, to say nothing of some 200 non-Hearst dailies and 800 country weeklies which buy syndicated Brisbane, all publish what Mr. Brisbane...