Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lord Wigram, longtime private secretary and intimate personal friend of George V, he shares his former master's instinctive dislike of foxtrots, cocktails and U. S. citizens...
...next year, the comuiissioners gave 126 votes to a Machenite Fundamentalist, 251 to a Chicago preacher who was supposed to represent the rank & file of the ministry, 508 to an administration wheelhorse of a type that Presbyterians have docilely accepted in recent years-Rev. Dr. Henry Buck Master, 64, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Pensions since 1919. A portly, florid Princeton man (1895) who held pastorates in Buffalo and Fort Wayne, Ind. and went to War as a stretcher-bearer, Dr. Master lives affluently on Philadelphia's Main Line, attends the swankest Presbyterian Church, at Bryn Mawr. Conservative...
Appearing this week, the June issue of the Law Review will contain four articles by eminent authors. "Ought the Doctrine of Consideration to be Abolished from the Common Law?", by Lord Wright, Master of Rolls, is featured. Leslie Craven, Counsel to the Federal Coordinator of Transportation; Professor Warner Fuller of Duke University Law School, Felix Frankfurter; and Dean Charles E. Clark of Yale Law School complete the list...
What Ballet Master George Balanchine and his collaborator Paul Tchelitchev offered was the most inept production that present-day operagoers have witnessed on the Metropolitan stage. The bereaved Orpheus was personified by Lew Christensen, a tall, strapping young man from Portland, Ore., who wore black trunks, black mitts, a black cape and a lyre on his back, expressed his sorrow by thrusting his fists into the air, swaying before a funereal mound which could easily have covered scores of Eurydices. Muscular William Dollar, a native of St. Louis, leaped into the picture as Amor (Love), wearing white tights and great...
...investments under its supervision. But by last week its founder was ready for another venture. Mr. Young moved again, this time to another 42nd Street address, the Lincoln Building, where he became president of Young Management Corp. Mr. Young's shy, quiet manner is deceptive. He is a master salesman as well as a brilliant analyst. Only 34, he lives luxuriously in Manhattan's swank River Touse, owns a 100-ft. yacht called the Arab. Moreover, he has very clear notions on how investment counsel firms hould be run. When he is unable to run them...