Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thos. Cook & Son and other panders of rubberneckery rushed crowds of sightseers to a new gawking place. For the first time in 400 years the kitchens of Hampton Court Palace, whence came the viands of Cardinal Wolsey and florid Henry VIII, were thrown open to the public. Where the Master Cook, velvet-gowned, bechained with gold, had once held powers of all but life and death over his scullions, thronged many a one who thought himself as good as many another, and probably considerably better...
...Vincent C. Pepe, Manhattan realtor, recently called upon the master of Italy. Good Democrat, Mr. Pepe carried with him an autographed photograph and a letter of greeting from Alfred E. Smith, Governor of New York. The Italian Premier looked upon the likeness and asserted: "He looks like a Roman, and he must be a man with a punch." Straightway Mussolini autographed one of his own photographs, wrote a letter in reply, and gave them to Mr. Pepe to take back to that man who "looks like a Roman...
...duty in the ship's control cabin were 16 men including the master of the vessel, gallant, air-tested Lieutenant Commander Zachary Lansdowne. For two hours they had fought their ship this way and that through a series of pesky squalls. They had released helium. They had dumped into the storm their water-balast...
...Wortley, England, a well-brushed, playful, black Pomeranian dog followed, six years ago, the coffin of his master to its pit in the local cemetery. Clods fell on the coffin. He wagged his tail. His master was down there, hiding. Last week the dog, shaggy now and truculent, lame with age, his coat gnarled and his old bones stiff, stretched out to die. For six years, fed by marveling neighbors, he had kept watch over the grave...
Over the pedal deliberations of the convention presided Louis Chalif, President of the American Society of Teachers of Dancing. He, a graduate of one of the Russian Imperial ballet schools, onetime ballet master of the government theater at Odessa, is the founder of the famed Chalif Russian Normal School of Dancing, Manhattan ?an establishment which has proved as remunerative as a tract of Florida real estate. Chalif is plump, prosperous, vigorous. His face invariably displays the bland amiability of one who is pleasantly stupefied by recent exertion. Once Pavlowa saw him perform...