Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Film. In Manhattan, Hooverizers viewed a first showing of The Master of Emergencies, pieced together by the Nominee's friend, Author Will Irwin, from some ten miles of miscellaneous cinema films showing Hoover activities since...
...third order then entered to see the king shave and put on his wig. And last came the final rabble of cardinals, marshals, courtiers, to observe the rest of the ceremony: royal breeches and hose, royal shirt by way of the First Valet of the Wardrobe, to the Grand Master of the Wardrobe, to the Dauphin, to the King. "At this crucial moment, while the nightshirt was off and the day-shirt not yet on, one little concession was made to the King's privacy. Two valets held up the King's dressing gown as a screen...
...note was dutifully due because Their Majesties had just been the house guests, at historic Welbeck Abbey, of William John Arthur Charles James Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland, Earl of Portland, and onetime Master of the Horse to His Majesty...
...symbolically-minded said it was practically foreordained that oft-rescued Claret should rescue the distrait Courtney. Impalpable ministers of safety and service hover about the master of the Minnewaska. To accomplish this feat of systematic searching the ship was diverted 341 miles from its track. The Atlantic Transport Company wirelessed the Captain, "You were fortunate to carry out rules of sea and save souls, no matter conditions." The plane was not saved...
Another graph "The Man Who Loved Islands" registers the lifetime development of a man's passion for aloofness. He first indulges his passion by buying an island where he is "The Master" over his own microcosm of necessary attendants-a butler, a housekeeper, a carpenter, a mason. Wearying of these servants, who cheat him, quarrel among themselves, and pine for the peopled mainland, he retreats to a smaller island where he is served by one old couple and their daughter. Out of sheer indifference he allows himself to be seduced by the daughter, whom he marries because...