Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fine morning the Presidential yacht, Mayflower, put to sea without her master or mistress aboard. Instead there were Edward T. Clark, the President's private secretary; Ellen Peck, secretary to Mr. Clark; Mrs. Clark; E. W. Smithers, the White House telegraphist; Pat McKenna, Cerberus of the White House office, friend of all dignitaries for the last 20 years; Erwin Geisser, the President's stenographer; Katherine Gwynn, Mrs. Coolidge's maid; John May, White House butler, valet ad interim to the President; Julia Jongbloet, cook, successor to the famed Martha M. Mulvey; Rob Roy, collie; and Paul...
...Congregational minister who believed in predestination and foreordination, he himself began with an intention of entering the ministry; but, after two years' preparation, turned to the law and politics. Always a serious mortal, with few pleasures, he studies thoroughly the subjects he attempts-and masters them. For example, he is a master of Rivers and Harbors legislation and of public expenditures. Before he speaks, he learns ; and before he went abroad, he mastered the question of international trade in arms. Then he was required to listen to 43 days of debate and expressions of good intentions. At last there...
...Zorro. Master, this time, of the Australian stock whip, with which he flicks the ash from a cigaret, disarms a swordsman, climbs a balcony, tears a marriage license in two, Douglas Fairbanks is himself again. Fascinating, agile Spanish hero, Don Cesar clears himself of the charge of murdering an Archduke, wins the lovely Dolores de Muro (Mary Astor), plays the double part of father and son in a battle against 15. The picture is photographically perfect, splendidly cast, full of thrills...
...task to gather in a bag the dropped syllables and mumbled words and omitted words and bad grammar of the brethren, as they took part in the service, and deliver them to the father of evil. On one occasion, he told a holy abbot that he brought his master each day a thousand bags full of 'failings and of negligences and of syllables and words' that were done or undone in the abbot's order in the course of their reading and singing. Tittivillus may find ample occupation in our institutions of learning...
Stanley R. Yarnall, master of the Germantown Friends' School (Philadelphia), which is co-educational from kindergarten through high school : "The control of the boy does not depend on the sex of the teacher. It depends on the character. . . . We have discovered that, up to the fifth-grade age, women are better teachers for boys than men. There is one exception to be noted here. When our boys reach the fourth grade, we put them under men instructors for athletics...