Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...call me Master and Lord: and ye say well...
...hotsy-totsy style there is the fantasy. "Rags Martin-Jones." full of the unbelievable tosh of which Fitzgerald was master. But there is something new, something un-Fitzgeraldian, which has an aroma of Sherwood Anderson. All the other stories in the book have it, now faint and thin, now strong and assailing. Perhap it is unfair to shout "Sherwood Anderson!" It may be that this is what happens to all young men who grow serious before they have grown truly wise. And so it may be that this is merely a phase in the growing-up process of which...
...airplane is master of the heights, is the submarine master of the depths. The lowest which a U. S. submarine has ever gone is 315 feet below surface-and that only by accident.* Last week off Portsmouth, N. H., Lieutenant Commander George A. Rood took the new V-2 down to 220 feet. To get there it took three different plunges-first to a depth of 50 feet, then a shifting of ballast, a plunge to 110 feet, another ballast-adjustment, and then a final plunge to 220 feet, at which level the underwater boat traveled successfully some seven miles...
Died. Franz Kneisel, 61, famed Roumanian violinist and composer, from 1885 until 1903 concert master of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, until 1917 director of the Kneisel Quartet, of which the other three original members were Roth, Svecenski and Giese, since 1905 a professor at the Institute of Musical Art, Manhattan; at Manhattan after undergoing an operation for perforating ulcer of the intestines...
These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important: SERIOUS LULU BELLE-Lenore Ulric in a startling concoction about a Negro courtesan who graduated from Harlem to Paris. YOUNG WOODLEY-The tribulations of a schoolboy whose first love is the wife of a faculty master. THE GREAT GOD BROWN-A stirring and occasionally obscure play by Eugene O'Neill discussing ex-pressionistically how an artistic spirit was submerged by modern competition. CRAIG'S WIFE-Chrystal Herne giving a keen portrait of a woman whose home became a sanctum in which even a husband...