Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Effendi corresponds roughly to the English Sir. Actually it means master or lord and is given to members of the professions and upper classes who have no higher rank. Effendim (my master) is used by servants to their employers...
...Manhattan, the Beethoven Association* gave a concert. Sedate and grave was the music heard, the august, the decorous, the lovely works of the great masters of yesterday-Schubert, Schumann, Haydn. One departure from classicism was made-the rendering of Chausson's Chanson Perpétuelle by Mme. Stanley, supported by a stringed quartet. "Very bad," said Critic Deems Taylor of this departure. But for the works august, sedate, all critics had praise. The chamber music of Haydn was the pièce de résistance. Next to the master, Beethoven, the darling of those who attend the Society...
...These proceeds it has devoted to such good works as shall abet the fame of Beethoven, paying for the publication of Arthur Wheelock Thayer's Life of Beethoven in its first English version, contributing to the New York Public Library a valuable collection of works relating to the Master, giving a large sum toward the erection of a new Festspielhaus at Salzburg, Germany. * In the U. S. * The Directors, beside Mr. Mackay, are: Frederic A. Juilliard, Marshall Field, Otto H. Kahn, Charles Triller, Alvin W. Krech, Arthur Judson, Nicholas Murray Butler, Scipione Guidi, Mrs. E. H. Harriman, Thomas...
...world's immortal etchers he runs his pen, here scratching out a name, there setting a black spot, occasionally making the faint checkmark of approval; Of Zorn's later prints he says: "They had become feeble and photographic beyond words," though for the other periods of that surpassing master he has some admiration. The book is illustrated with the prints of many great etchers?Whistler, Rembrandt, Pennell, Gova, Duveneck, Turner, Lepèère?in exquisite photogravure, illumined with pointed anecdote. He recounts how he talked before a certain print society "to educate it," and how after his tirade a lady...
...yesterday that Dr. W. H. Weston, assistant professor of botany at the University, has been granted leave of absence for the second half of the current academic year, to continue in Cuba some phases of the study and control of the sugar cane Mosaic diseases. Dr. Weston received his master's degree from the University in 1912 and his Ph.D. in 1915. He began his study of the sugar cane diseases with Dr. East at Soledad last February, and continued last summer in Cuba with the Tropical Plant Research Foundation...