Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...headed them into the controller's office, then into the office of the promotion manager. There he ordered a right face, and they went on into the office of John B. and Tracy Drake. Immensely pleased with himself as a drill master, he marched them back through all the offices to the room from which they had started. "To the rear, MARCH...
John Singer Sargent because, when he was a youth, he had beheld Velazquez' painting, and with discernment enough to realize that he beheld an immortal example of a great master's ability to triumph over his subject, he had copied the picture in the nicest oil-colors on his palet...
...though unfamiliar name) because, when the hammer descended with its above-onomatopeotized concussion, the noise was no more than a polite acknowledgement from Christie's auctioneer of Mr. Vanderneut's right to pay 6,000 guineas (about $30,000) for Sargent's earnest copy of a master's struggle with difficulties...
...night King Ludwig of Bavaria drove alone up the black highroad to Bayreuth to pay tribute at the grave of the dead Wagner; of the multitude of famed musicians, soloists in their own right, who accept a bare living wage at Bayreuth to offer their Art to the Master; of the beer profiteers at the Festspiel-hauser; of the shaggy, the swollen little man, lying on his back in the garden, with earth in his beard and the roots of flowers in his eyes-thinking...
...British iron and steel industry is at present very much a child of misfortune. Everyone's hand is against it except Premier Baldwin's-himself an important steel master-yet the Premier seems powerless to avert depression from his own trade...