Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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February 3.-The Rev. Boyd Edwards, D. D., Head-Master of the Hill School, Pottstown...
...Samuel S. Drury, D. D., '01, Head Master of St. Paul's School, Concord...
Noteworthy among the prospective preachers are the Archbishop of Upsala, Primate of Sweden, the Rev. Samuel S. Drury, Head Master of St. Paul's School, the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Union Theological Seminary in New York, and Dr. Terrot Reaveley Glover, Fellow of St. John's College at Cambridge, England...
...clockwork manoeuvers of the pipe-clayed actors. Balieff, of course, is inimitable; no one could rob his "apparition on the stage", as he says, of one whit of its originality or its unique humor. One is reconciled to the end of each scene only by the knowledge that this master comedian will reappear for one of his nonpareil curtain-talks, and when he actually joins the unspeakable "Russian Vocal Quartet" for a few flourishes, he raises the roof perceptibly. The temptation is to write reams about Balieff; his explanation that since the audience did not understand Italian, "La Grande Opera...
...Japanese servants also showed remarkable courage. An Amah, or serving maid, who was only slightly over four feet tall, dragged her master, who weighed 175 pounds, two or three miles through the flames, refusing to think of her own safety until she had placed the stricken man in the care of the rescuers...