Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though such a movement would have seemed trifling before the lira was stabilized on a gold basis, it loomed ominously, last week, almost seven months after complete stabilization was supposed to have been achieved. With Volpi, the master stabilizer out of office, a serious slump might...
Pregnant with significance was the continued harmony existing, last week, between the Nationalist Government and their great, voluntarily subordinate ally: the Christian Marshal, Feng Yu-hsiang, master of the largest personal army in the world. Whether Feng will remain subordinate to the Nationalists, seize power by a coup d'état, or quietly wangle* himself into control of their Government is a question only now beginning to be answered...
...appeal. What is tuneful is combined with what is funny, what is stimulating is added to what is ennobling, though it must be remarked, in Producer White's favor, that he tried hard to control his appetite for the esthetic and only in one tedious scene did it master him completely. This was when a group of nuns were used as the background for a rendering of Ave Maria...
...than I cometh," he started out among humble villagers, bringing them a message of love far simpler to understand than the hair-splitting taboos of their priests. His magnetism soon drew twelve men as disciples, and together they wandered from village to village, humbly enjoying the success of the master's teachings and healings. This early, happy part of Jesus's life Ludwig presents in glowing contrast to the last tragic months of proud ambition, and violent vituperation of the priesthood, which inevitably led to his failure and crucifixion. In diagnosing Napoleon's career, and Bismarck...
...town tonight, my baby," when the interlocutor bids his black-face gentlemen be seated, and starts the volley of wisecracks between Bones and Tambo, the two "endmen." Endmen not only in the semicircle, these two always have the last word?at the expense of the ponderous master of ceremonies, Mr. Interlocutor. For "he is the father of all the foils in vaudeville, those well-dressed gentlemanly fellows of unimpeachable manners, who speak such painfully correct English and are such easy prey for the low buffoonery of their companions ... it is one of the laws of human drama that this should...