Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stella saw that Laurel wasn't her kind? that she herself was the handicap on Laurel's becoming "nice." So she gave Laurel up in the only way that could bring a definite breach between them?let Stephen divorce her and married the wreck of an ex-society-riding-master, a worthy whom Laurel couldn't bear. She smashed Laurel's faith in her, and told her she was going to South America with her new husband. But she didn't. The novel ends where, an employee in a sweatshop, she looks on from the street at Laurel's successful...
...RETURN OF FRANK CLAMART ? Henry C. Rowland ? Harper ($1.90). 'Frank Clamart's visiting card should read, "Virtuous Assas-sinations?Singly or by the Dozens ?No Reduction Made for Quantity. " A master-criminal, reformed and now crusading against an international dope ring and murder syndicate, he extinguishes evildoers with nonchalance and celerity. His friend, Shane Emmet, a cartoonist with a camera-eye, assists his adventurous labor with blackjack, revolver and sketchbook, and strings along two high-speed love affairs the interim. When the plot is finally unsnarled, scoundrelly corpses fairly heap the floor, and Emmet, strangely enough, receives...
...young married couple and their mothers-in-law who prove to be far more sensible, and to have a greater sense of humor, than their traditional prototypes. Mr. O'Neill's drama of negro life builds up to the curtain with the keen sure, subtle strokes of a master in technique. It illustrates once again the writer's extraordinary power of creating an atmosphere that transcends the actual lines and action of the play. With these two plays as leaders, and with a number of others that may be said to be truly good, Mr. Shay has made a creditable...
John Bull has recently come to the conclusion that to all practical intents and purposes, he is no longer the master of an "Island Kingdom". Although he realized many centuries ago that he must keep the largest navy in the world, it is only recently that he has decided that this is not enough. For there is much more air in the atmosphere than there is water in the ocean, and at present it seems as though air furnished as convenient and safe a medium of transit as water...
THOMAS PAINE. "Oh what fun it is to be a rebel," says Mr. Bradford. Paine "was a commonplace rebel, entirely practical." Not educated, not a deep thinker, lacking humor, but a master of burning words with a splendid ardor for democratic ideals. Mr. Bradford sums up the case for Paine and his detractors: "Here is a man who upset the world and you say he did not brush his clothes...