Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stone palace overlooking the Thames to live in (a wing of the Houses of Parliament), a salary of $25,000 a year, a further allowance for "costumes and effects" of $5,000, and an annual present of a fat buck and a fat doe from His Majesty's Master of the Buckhounds...
...reader of the best detective fiction knows, the "C. I. D." (Criminal Investigation Department) will unravel the knottiest mystery in the shortest possible time. In fiction there is usually an amateur on hand to simplify the C. I. D.'s work. In actuality, for many a long year, the master mind of Scotland Yard, the prototype of Sherlock Holmes, a sleuth in no need of amateur assistance, has been Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, a real super-detective credited with solving more murders than any living...
Died. Strongheart, 13, German police dog, principal of many a cinema (Brawn of the North, White Fang, North Star, The Love Master); in Los Angeles...
...barbed wire and grilled iron, lives the Richest Man. Thither he returned last week from Lakewood, N. J., his annual intermediate stop between the North and Florida. The bed from which he rises at 7 is crumbless, for at "Kijkuit" no one may breakfast abed. At 7:30 the Master leaves his bath. On the scales he finds he weighs less than 100 lbs. In the mirror he sees pale, blue eyes, pointed chin, sunken cheeks, large head, hairless skin, stooped shoulders, and his stomach. Harmless looking from the outside, it is this organ which has caused him more...
...Roerich Museum in Manhattan to hold as many of his paintings as they could get. The museum now has 750 Roerichs; European galleries and individuals own some 2,500. They sent him to Central Asia. While he was away they financed and recently started for him a 24-story Master Building in Manhattan, looking across the Hudson River at the factories of New Jersey. That dank, uncompleted Master Building was where the Roerich acolytes received him and his son last week...