Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Many a glum-faced, kinky-polled native spat in the dust as the little imperial party passed. Some crept up to the imperial quarters. A volley of shots crashed through the windows. The Emperor's valet and his chamberlain, both of whom were standing talking to their master, dropped dead. The little Emperor was not scratched...
There was a formal convention of U. S. hoboes. There were hundreds of celebrities, like the Brazilian Ambassador, Post master General Farley, Marshall Field, Cinemactress Constance Bennett, who emerged from 250 private railroad cars and made their way to shabby old Churchill Downs. At the track Owner Widener shared his box with bright-eyed Sir Bede Clifford, Governor-General of the Bahamas, believing he had never before had so good a chance to win a Derby...
Night after Toscanini's farewell (see above), a tribute was paid him over the radio by Conductor Leopold Stokowski, who referred to the Italian maestro as "the supreme master of all conductors," mourned his departure as "an immense loss to our country." In the course of the Philadelphia Orchestra's tour (TIME, April 27), Stokowski was swelling his purse by appearing with his men on the Kraft's Cheese hour, which is sent out from Hollywood with Crooner Bing Crosby as master of ceremonies. Stokowski's first offering was Bach's Siciliana, which prompted Crosby...
Cleon B. White of the National Broadcasting Company acted as Master of Ceremonies. The Freshman committee consisted of: Richard R. Flood, chairman; Elliott Bacon, John C. Bowen, Charles Burwell, George Earle, William C. Flynn, H. Rushton Harwood, Donald McDonald, Hugh McNeil, Robert W. Sarnoff, and Clifford W. Wilson...
...Voss in the interior of Norway, he went to sea at 14, thereby upsetting the future plotted for him by his father, a progressive woolen manufacturer who expected to rear his eldest son in the family business. Son Torkild learned seamanship in sailing vessels, passed his examination for a master's ticket at 19, got his first command at 21. It was a sailing vessel and, more important, an oil tanker...