Word: masterly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most colorful but perhaps the least desirable of the candidates is James Michael Curley, who has been mayor of Boston three times in the past. The demagogic chicanery of this political band-master and his consistent hostility to what is fine and liberal need no recital here. Just how much injury he inflicted on the people of Boston during his last tenure of office will never be accurately known, for immediately following it he became Governor and gained control of the Finance Committee which was just beginning to investigate the Dolan case and one or two other irregularities that...
...Pemberton Square," shortly after making him District Attorney. Since that time Boston has sunk steadily into the mire of corruption until now the town's law-breakers are not infrequently recruited from the police department. And if Foley is tarred with the same brush as his crst-while master, so is the Third Democrat, Maurice J. Tobin, whose election to the School Board Mr. Curley made possible. During Mr. Tobin's term of office one of the gravest scandals in the history of the Board broke out, resulting in prison terms for two and ruined reputations for several others...
...convention in Denver last fortnight, "the dominating and fulminating Caesar of the C. I. O. marching his Roman legions to the White House with bludgeoning threats, while on the other hand we find the Machiavelli of the same C. I. O. pursuing the methods typical of that old master of cunning and conniving, working through the catacombs of politics, pouring oil upon the troubled machinery of national politics so that where the one smashes through in ruthless effort at conquest, the other follows after with soft words, with the trappings of intellectualism and the tenuous and slithering tactics...
...what a stimulus to true education the dinner table can be. President Seymour indicated in the inaugural address his high opinion of the colleges as social influences. It is now up to the individual colleges to show co-operative zeal in making of the dining-halls places where master and student will meet often for the benefit of all concerned. The Yale News...
...material in the New Classical Rooms is of outstanding quality. In the place of greatest advantage amongst the Greek works is the Meleager, in the style of Scopas and a copy after the great fourth century master. Opposite stands the Aphrodite, smaller and in the softer style of the second and third centuries...