Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not definitely appear which of these versions is the correct one. The Grand Master of the Masonic Order in Italy, Signor Torrigiana, has issued orders from Rome that all Masonic lodge meetings and activities are to cease throughout Italy "until the law abolishing secret societies shall be made void...
Concluding a professional estimate of The Medical Work of Pasteur, wrote M. Emile Roux, Director of the Pasteur Institute (Paris) : "The work of Pasteur is admirable. It shows his genius, but one must have lived intimately with the master to know of the goodness of his heart...
...well as from "old school" Americans have come their expressions of fear. But while these have beaten the air of a careless world with the fury of their misgivings, the beast has kept slowly and methodically growing. And now the time has come when man must attempt to master the civilization he has created, for it is not to be thought that he will meekly submit to the forces that would crush him, once the danger is evident...
...Nikita Balieff, master of the Chauve Souris, told friends in London of a recent call he made on Mr. Coolidge: "I kept awake all night preparing a little speech to tell Mr. Coolidge all about his noble country and his noble self. .... Mr. Coolidge seized my hand and said: 'How do you do?' Then he seized it again and said: 'Goodbye.' I was out of the White House in forty seconds. Fortunately his countrymen listened to me with more patience than...
Morris Gest announced that the Moscow Musical Studio (which, having completed a successful season at Leningrad, last week began another in Berlin) will come to Manhattan under his management for a seven weeks' season in December, bringing all its stage settings, its own chorus masters and conductors, and attended by one Yasloff Gremislavsky, "the World's Greatest Living Master of Makeup." The Studio, a guild which comprises actors, danceVs and operatic stars, will present its full repertoire, including: Lecocq's The Daughter of Madame Angot; Aristophanes' Lysistrata, with music on Greek themes by the modern Russian...