Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain's academic world. The Provost, who holds the office for life, is appointed by the Crown, must be a Master of Arts in the University of Oxford or of Cambridge, must reside in Eton College during the whole of every school term. Reputed to receive a stipend of some $25,000 per year, he must hold no other money-making...
...magnificent Coronation of the Virgin by Cologne's unknown Master of the Life of Mary, in which the Virgin, crowned by God and Jesus Christ, is surrounded by a full orchestra of Angels, playing psalteries, sackbuts, harps, lutes and viols...
...King Edward's 13-year-old nephew, Viscount Lascelles, elder son of the Princess Royal, Countess of Harewood, reached in his Eton schooldays last week that awful moment at which his Tutor assigned him to "fag" for a senior Etonian. This "fag-master" will expect his tea to be made and his room tidied by Viscount Lascelles who will find his posterior more or less vigorously "swished" with a cane or fives-bat if the toast is burned or the fag-master's cricket boots are improperly cleaned. The King's nephew will most certainly be thus...
...appearance in cinema of the most famed fictional character created by Author Pelham Grenville Wodehouse. Herein, Jeeves (Arthur Treacher), fabulously efficient gentleman's gentleman to addle-headed Bertie Wooster (David Niven), teaches a Negro swing musician to play the March of the Hussars on the saxophone, extricates his master from a band of thieves posing as Scotland Yard men, adroitly furthers a romance between Bertie and a pleasantly mysterious young blonde (Virginia Field). Hampered by the fact that on the screen Jeeves is seen direct rather than through the mist of Bertie Wooster's dazed idolatry, Thank...
Among U. S. expatriate writers a tall, midwestern girl named Kay Boyle has emerged as the most prolific of the lot. In the last three years she has published six volumes. Master of a spectacular if not always lucid prose, she has told the story of the death of a tuberculous writer in Year Before Last, described life in homosexual circles in Gentlemen, I Address You Privately, and in general written of tempestuous artistic spirits who have a weakness for flowery language. Last week she offered U. S. readers a novel cut in the same pattern as her previous works...