Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Superintendent of Caretakers and the Business Manager continue to be at the service of all members of the University in matters such as property loss and damage or other personal difficulties but will not intervene in disciplinary affairs except at the request of the Dean, House Master, or other academic official. (Signed) A. C. Hanford, Aldrich Durant...
...from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Its secretary is Dr. Walter William Van Kirk, a 44-year-old Methodist who has been Secretary of the Department of International Justice & Goodwill of the Federal Council of Churches for the past ten years. Currently Dr. Van Kirk is preparing a "master file" of U. S. peace-lovers' names...
...Cook, 71, listing himself as an anthropologist, physician, author, journalist and lecturer, filed a damage suit for $125,000 against the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Writer Jeanette Mirsky, the Viking Press and Houghton Mifflin Co. for "discrediting" his claim to the "discovery" of the North Pole in 1908. Generally considered the master impostor of his time, jailed in 1925-30 for using the mails to defraud in connection with oil-stock swindling, Dr. Cook declared: "Before I die I must clear my good name...
Died. Jean ("Young Cupid") Patou 47, onetime No. 1 French couturier and style dictator; of an apoplectic stroke; in Paris. A gambler and master showman, who died in poverty, he was the first Paris designer to use U. S. mannequins, in 1923 first re-introduced the long skirt...
...speakers' table, looking like a rather grouchy old professor, sat famed oldtime Director David Wark ("The Old Master") Griffith, who climaxed the affairs at 1 a. m. by awarding the three top prizes. Last week was a big one for Direc tor Griffith, now 56, comparatively poor, and apparently through with the cinema. In Manhattan two audiences invited by the Museum of Modern Art to its series of cinema classics agreed that his Intolerance (which, contrary to legend that it cost $2,500,000, was made for $330,000 in 1916) compared favorably in many ways with modern efforts...