Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Arthur Train has never done better. His gift lies not in narration, though his style is eminently readable. His plots are usually negligible. But he is past master of the art of dramatizing the problems?social, legal, economic?of tangled modern life. His characters are in many cases vividly drawn, but in the main they are subordinate to the examination of the intricacies of the social structure. Peculiarly in a position to know the very rich and the very poor, together with the legal mechanism of their interrelationships, he has the knack of dragging dull facts...
...speech at Naples, His Majesty Benito Mussolini said: "I am a servant of no master but the Nation. I ask no reward but my conscience. It is enough that I can look forward to a none too distant date when I can lay aside my task, strong in the knowledge that I have accomplished something useful...
...outstanding feature, I agree with the editors, is the Class Poem, 1924, by Oliver La Farge. I wonder whether the author has been reading Edwin Arlington Robinson's poems; certainly he has caught something of that master's pattern and manner, his directness, his vigor, his telling expressiveness. Naturally enough Mr. La Farge has been unable to maintain the exquisite balance of form and substance that makes Robinson's best poems so exactly right, so stark and simple and inevitable; yet when Mr. La Farge falters into prose, his idea gives sufficient impetus to rush the reader along. Without lapsing...
...half pounds of bullion. Flint and his rum-swigging crew are to receive a quarter of the prize; the crew of the Royal James is to receive a quarter; and a round half is to go to the cause of King James to restore the Stuarts and to make Master Ormerod "my Lord Duke of Jedburgh, Marquis of Cobbielaw, Earl and Baron Broomfield." Unfortunately, Master Ormerod has no stomach for piracy, cares nought for dukedoms and is thoroughly incensed at the idea of bringing aboard a pirate ship an innocent maid, the daughter of an Irish colonel...
Replied the Pope (Pius XI, master of pointed phrase): "When Politics come near the Altar, then Religion, the Church, the Pontiff have not only the right but the duty to give directions and indications to be followed by Catholics...