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Word: masterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jooss was scarcely out on his own when old-style ballet began to impress him. He admired it for its discipline, its grace. As ballet master at the opera house in Münster he found a sympathetic collaborator in Fritz Cohen, a budding young conductor who was glad to write music for dancing. In Münster the leading dancer was Aino Siimola, a sleek black-haired Esthonian who became Jooss's wife and assistant director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jooss Start | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...route from Mother Britain to this outpost of Empire last week was a sailing vessel, the Royal Mail Cap Pilar, with a cargo desperately desired by its inhabitants. The rats, reported the master of a British freighter which put in at lonely Tristan da Cunha last August, had got completely out of control of the island's single mongoose, were devouring all crops, even beginning to eat the Bibles of which Tristanites own five to a family. Last week the Cap Pilar was gallantly sailing to the rescue with twelve alley cats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Tabbies to Tristan | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...tools at the height of his own career. Last week this neglected U. S. hero was made the central figure of a biography that pictured him as a forerunner of the true type of modern revolutionist, an able, unscrupulous, single-minded man, skilled in intrigue and a master of the modern art of political propaganda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heroic Revolutionist | 10/26/1936 | See Source »

...Beach (right) enjoyed Rollins hazing RUPERT HUGHES has become a master of monies in radio. Irwin S. Cobb is about to come one after a taste of starting in motion picture but Rex Beach, once an American titan of mass state telling like Hughes and Cobb, grows old on a ranch in Florida. When Rex Beach entered Rollins College in 1801, he signed himself Rex Ellen's tough rabble on the Yukon during the gold rush he had left Kent College of Law in Chicago to the Beach was a Rollins Kappa Alpha and had lead something about roughing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rollins, Sigma Nu Honor Two Greats | 10/24/1936 | See Source »

Accordingly the decision of the Columbia system to limit debates to flesh and blood candidates upholds the interests of the public in general. And Mr. Farley, particularly, should beam approval, for no candidates since Satan has promised such great worlds to a gullible public as "his master's voice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAKE IT AWAY | 10/21/1936 | See Source »

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