Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonel Gaston B. Means '80, prominent Massachusetts's political leader, will act as master of ceremonies on Tuesday night, when radio station WBZ, Boston, will conduct a presidential poll by radio. The object of the poll will be to determine the popular selection for the Democratic nominee...
...gifts as a politician were recognized in 1920. She went to the Democratic Convention in San Francisco and seconded the nomination of John W. Davis for the Presidential nomination. She did it in a way that would have been a credit to an acknowledged master of politics, and she did it like a woman and an actress. She advanced to speak, clothed entirely in white, red roses blooming on her corsage...
...Oser, Swiss ex-riding master: "According to despatches from Switzerland, the daughter born to Mrs. Mathilda McCormick Oser (TIME, May 19, MILESTONES) has been named Anneta...
Aquinas, pupil of Plate and Aristotle, undisputed master for so many centuries of Catholic philosophy and theology, is glory enough for any university; one of the greatest glories of the Middle Age. In philosophy, law, history, medicine and anatomy the list of famous Neapolitans, is long. Remembering Parthenope, the clearest absent vision of her university is the quadrangle where stand the statues of those curious associates, two of whom came through martyrdom and exile to this peace--St. Thomas, Pietro della Vigna, Giordano Bruno. Pietro, Chancellor, of the Emperor Frederick II., and like him a poet, delivered his master...
...Edward Elgar, composer of Pomp and Circumstance (as red-coated a British tune as Sousa's Stars and Stripes is true-blue American), has been created "Master of the King's Music," by special and personal appointment of H. M. King George. In this office he succeeds Sir Walter...