Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock one morning during the past week, a young housemaid went up the stairs of a big London house to awaken her master, John Singer Sargent. She found him dead on his pillow with a volume spread open, face down, on the reading table beside him. Physicians who arrived to pronounce the inevitable, grisly abracadabra, said that he had died in his sleep of an apoplectic seizure. So, at the age of 69, ended the life of an eminent and talented gentleman who has been recognized for the last 30 years as the greatest portrait painter of his period...
Died. Baron von Mirbach, 81, Lord High Steward of the Hohenzollern court under Wilhelm II, Master of the Household to the late Kaiserin; in Potsdam. His name was connected with the sensational scandals that convulsed Germany in the early part of the century over the bestowals of decorations in return for contributions to the Kaiserin's Church funds...
Died. McKinley, Arabian horse on which Col. William F. Cody ("Buffalo Bill") galloped into the ring at his famed Wild West Shows; in Denver, Col. Since 1917, when his master died, he has kept to his stall. Last November, he emerged to lead the Armistice Day parade-his last public appearance...
...John Cyril Flower, M.A. will preach in the University Chapel on Sunday, April 19, at eleven o'clock. Mr. Flower took his Bachelor's degree at the University of London 1910 and his Master's degree in 1914. He then studied at Manchester College in Oxford, where he is at present lecturer on the Psychology of Religion. He has been the minister of churches at Manchester and Bolton and is now the minister at the Unitarian Church in Cambridge. He has published books on the Parables of Jesus applied in Modern Life, and on the Psychological answers of religious questions...
...would have continued enthroned in the German mind, had not party ambition betrayed him to his enemies. He is no longer the symbol of a lost cause, but a grey-headed politician, and the reverence that he once commanded lies turned to scorn. Charlatan or genius, fool or master, he and his glorious reputation will be dragged in the mire of politics...