Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solver of the financial intricacies for the biggest business, the largest trust, the only absolute monopoly of the country-the U. S. Government. Rather, Warren is a man of more diversity, all mobile, a capable strategist, hard to trick, always ready for sortie or counterattack, complete and instant master of the forces of his mind...
...Premier Giolitti spoke, but had little to add to Signor Orlando's arguments. His reception from the Fascisti was more violent than that accorded to his colleague, for it was remembered by everybody that Signor Giolitti is a past master in the gentle art of "cooking" elections...
...person who does not know the difference between a fumble and a forward--and there are some few thousands of them--and who wonders why it is so easy to find a new secretary of state and so difficult to get a master coach, the searching of the committees for a superman is not so entertaining as some other aspects of the thing. One is the post-season interest in the sport. People are discussing Harvard football while waiting for the next cross-word puzzle to come out. As baseball has burst the bounds of the playing months, so football...
...GERMAN COURT-Count Robert Zedlitz-Trützschler-Doran ($5.00). For seven years, Count Zedlitz-Trützschler was Controller of the Imperial Household of Kaiser Wilhelm II, now Kaiser of a small estate at Doom, Holland. For seven years, he lived almost cheek by jowl with his Imperial master; he knew him as few men did; he left him in 1910, thoroughly disgusted and, as Bismarck did 20 years earlier, with a profound sense that the Kaiser's absolutism would lead Germany to catastrophe. His view of the Kaiser, prejudices duly discounted, is favorable rather than otherwise; certainly...
...frolic. He had composed so much that writing music was no longer an effort, and frequently as he wrote, he said, he was convulsed with laughter. The score is easy, melodious, lighthearted, reminiscent of Wagner iu mannerism rather than in poetry. Miss Bori was Mistress Ford; Tenor Gigli, Master Fenton; Mme. Alda, Nannette. All did well, But the critics, as they hailed their frost-bitten taxi-men and drove home, were replacing their familiar bromides with other phrases: "A scene quite without precedent" (The New York Times) ; "A relatively obscure singer who walked away with the chief honors...