Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devanter. Though liberal colleagues may disagree violently with his conservative opinions, they listen with profound respect in conference when, out of the experience of his full quarter-century on the Court, he expounds history, procedure, precedents. As elementary to him as the formula for water is to a master chemist, is the judicial principle that ignorance of the law is no excuse...
...Manhattan, one J. J. Hobart (Victor Moore), a hypochondriac theatrical tycoon, is being diddled by a pair of lawyers (Osgood Perkins and Charles Brown). Having lost the money he gave them to invest in a musical, they insure his life for a million dollars. Thus is created the master situation of the picture-a contest between Powell, as salesman of the policy, to keep Hobart alive, and his defrauders' determination to kill him off. To any person of the slightest moral stamina, it ought not to be laughable to see two low fellows trying to drown a middle-aged...
Inside those walls Arturo Toscanini was proving again his art, and allaying the fears of those who had heard the orchestra rehearse. A week prior it had been ragged, particularly in winds & strings. But the great master made the Brahms Second come out so clear and controlled. Schubert's Unfinished Symphony sing with such freshness that the audience could forget the flocks of frightened sparrows which swooped and twittered above their heads. There was no raggedness when, partly as a taunt to Nazi Germany, he led them through a scherzo by Jewish Felix Mendelssohn...
...They are James B. Munn, professor of English; Samuel Hazzard Cross, associate professor of Slavic Languages; George K. Gardner, professor of Law; Kenneth P. Kempton, instructor in English; Sam B. Warner, professor of penal legislation; Harry A. Wolfson, Nathan Littauer Professor of Jewish Literature and Philosophy; Ronald M. Ferry, master of Winthrop House; Charles F. Brooks, director of the Blue Hill Observatory; Thomas R. Goethals, associate in obstetrics; Paul Gustafson, assistant in obstetrics; Thomas H. Lanman, associate in surgery; Arthur W. Hanson, professor of accounting; Fabyan Packard, assistant professor of hygiene; James L. Peters, curator of birds; and Ralph Lowell...
...mouse, renamed Minnie after examination by Zooman Bean, came a supreme test one evening last week. Up to a microphone in NBC's Chicago studios stepped the master of ceremonies of the NBC Jamboree to announce "the phenomenon of the century . . . the only mouse in the world who actually sings." Into the studio marched the Industrial School's tall, gaunt Manager Oscar Alva Allred, carrying Minnie in a wire-fronted box. Holding the cage before the microphone, Manager Allred poked a small piece of insulated wire through a hole in the box top, tenderly prodded Minnie...