Word: mastering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Filled with pity, and remembering his Master's art, a Catholic priest, by taking the girl to the Red Cross, enabled this Mary to see. Great miracle among great miracles was again brought to pass, this time by mundane skill...
...unveils them. It is his business to sound out the opposition, plan a campaign, arrange a compromise if one is necessary, and muster the votes when the skies are stormy. As long ago as 1899 one can find him praised by the Topeka Mail and Breeze as a past master at the art of settling a dispute without an open quarrel. In that capacity he has been of inestimable service to successive Administrations. For he has what William Allen White calls "a blessed gift as a hand-shaker" and "the indefinable thing called charm which binds men to one another...
...murder of his father-in-law who had attacked his wife. Two days before his death day, the sentence was commuted to "life." Nine months ago he was pardoned and released from Pennsylvania's Eastern Penitentiary, after an exemplary term during which he had made himself a master carver and inlay worker. He had patented tricks of his own in woodworking and had a $50,000 bank credit (royalties) awaiting...
...Petrushka was the beginning-a master's tale of an individual tragedy made fittingly little to suit a puppet...
...would be as "guest" and only for two or three performances, that the name Talley made two seasons ago by an uncritical press would no longer be a big money-maker in Manhattan. The Talleys answered back-to the effect that quite the contrary was true. Signer Gatti-Casazza, master of the Metropolitan, seized another opportunity to remain silent...