Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morocco case resting on the desk. It contained the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, officially titled "The General Treaty for the Renunciation of War." There was a moment of fidgeting and shifting while the cameramen peered. Suddenly Tiny Tim, the Coolidge chow, scampered into the room, ran yipping toward his master. Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Kellogg came and stood in the doorway. Smiling, the President took a large, glimmering gold pen in his hand, a gift pen to Mr. Kellogg from the City of Havre, France. With a flourish which made good copy for the cameramen, he signed one copy...
...Feng the Mighty" is still master of the world's largest private army, a largely self-supporting band of 150,000 men, each schooled in some useful trade (TIME, July 2). Just now the new Nationalist Government of China is engaged in disbanding its total armies of 1,500,000 men; and Marshal Feng, as the Nationalist War Minister, cannot very well keep his own superb force together while the others disband, without some excellent excuse. Last week he seemed to have found it in a word: SHANTUNG...
Soon smart Washington will miss the deceptively nervous gentleman who wins so often but so charmingly and wittily at bridge, too. Diplomatic Washington will remember the master negotiant who won so much for China at President Harding's Nine Power conference.* for the cablegram told Dr. Sze to cross the Atlantic and resume the post of Chinese Minister at London, which he held throughout the War. Of the six Sze offspring (4 girls), half are being educated on each side of the Atlantic. Thus, although Dr. and Mrs. Sze will leave Maimie at Wellesley, where she was coxswain and captain...
...Edward Elgar, Master of the King's Musick, said at a public luncheon last week: "We have the satisfaction of knowing that the King is slowly recovering, and in a few months, unless there is an accident, we shall have him among us again...
...committee of selection which chose McGovern as Scholar-at-large was presided over by Dr. A. D. Lindsay, Master of Balliol College, who is at present giving the Cooper Foundation Lectures at Swarthmore College and who will deliver the Godkin Lectures at Harvard on February 5 and 7. The other members of the committee, all former Rhodes Scholars, were H. A. Moe of New York, Scholar-at-large from Minnesota in 1919. Professor R. M. Scoon, of Princeton, 1907 Rhodes Scholar from New York, George Hurley '11, of Providence. 1907 Rhodes Scholar from Rhode Island, and A. C. Valentine...