Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assassinate the Imperial family when he discovered that Nicholas was communicating with loyal friends by means of such notes concealed in the hollow cork of a milk bottle. According to her account, a pet dog belonging to the young Tsarevitch commenced to howl inconsolably as soon as his master had been shot dead. This so worked upon the nerves of the murderer, Yurovski, that he seized the dog and dashed its brains out against a red-hot stove...
...Kingdom of Italy was created out of a group of petty states. During that period the great Mazzini "watered the ideal of a united Italy with the blood of martyrs." Coincidentally Count Cavour, famed "Bismarck of the Princes of Piedmont," built up their power until his bluff, hearty master, Vittorio Emanuele II, King of Sardinia, became the first King of a united Italy. His son, later Umberto I, married the Princess Margherita, and their reign began in 1878 and ended in 1900. Since then the widowed Queen Margherita had retired almost entirely from public life and resided chiefly...
This man-monkey falls in love with a little wire-walker, who is also the object of his master's affections. The other man is handsome and the monkey loses, but only after some bizarre and often engrossing intrigue...
...working alleway although narrowness bothers here. The librarian has to be a man whose profane tasks are not too arduous and one for whom the printed page has a "slight glimmering of interest", sometimes a night steward, sometimes a ship's carpenter, or a baggage steward, or a master's clerk...
Ivan Mestrovic was born in 1883 in Slavonia. He received little better early schooling than was given other peasant boys of his age. For several years he tended sheep in Dalmatia for his Croatian parents. Later he moved to Spalato where he was apprenticed to a master mason. He then determined to become a sculptor and managed to scrape together sufficient funds for study in Vienna. In 1902 his first public exhibition was held. Since then his works have appeared several times in America and in all the great centers of Europe. Mestrovic is now Rector of the Academy...