Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Calvin Coolidge took oath as President of the U. S. The event took place in the thriving metropolis of Plymouth, Vt. The first child born in Plymouth after the oath was named Calvin Coolidge Rogers. Master Rogers was born last week...
...step more and we shall be a full-fledged member of the family of nations. We shall slap France upon the back, raise our hat to England-with a touch of hauteur to show we are her equal. We can be a trifle patronizing to our late, fortune-fallen master, Spain. As for this overbearing U. S., we shall cut him dead...
They laid Samuel Gompers to rest in a grave in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at Tarrytown, beside the Hudson. As the coffin was lowered, the white lambskin apron of a Master Mason was dropped upon it. There they left him, not far from the earthly remains of Andrew Carnegie, William Rockefeller, John D. Archbold...
...office in that remarkable republic of aristocrats." This Golden Book, then, was for a literary aristocracy, "not of birth, but of performance." It was a new monthly anthology of classic fiction, the sort of volume you might make up unconsciously by rummaging during a month of evenings among the master tale-tellers in your library. The editors-Henry Wysham Lanier, of the Review of Reviews, assisted by Dr. William Lyon Phelps, high priest of letters at Yale University, Stuart P. Sherman, literary editor of the New York Herald-Tribune, John Cotton Dana, Newark librarian, and Professor-Emeritus Charles Mills Gayley...
...campaign which Author Ibanez has been waging, against the King on foreign soil. But it was something more. It was tacitly a popular manifestation, evinced by a small and, persumably, representative section of the people, in favor of the Monarchy as an institution; for, in Spain, the real master is the Monarchy, quite irrespective of the King's personality. In Egypt, King Fuad is the monarch; and Great Britain is the master. In Russia, the proletariat is sovereign; but the Moscow oligarchy is the keeper of the sovereignty. In Italy, Vitorio Emanuele is King; and Benito Mussolini is master...