Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commander's reputation as a thoroughly experienced, altogether first-class Navy man," although you do not fully express it. The fact is Vice Admiral Hepburn is known as a first-rate seaman; an indefatigable worker; a profound thinker; a man of keen judgment and a master of his profession, who, by training, experience and professional attainments, is thoroughly fitted to be Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet. May I ask why this stuff about "selling the navy out to the British?" I don't know what his views are on the subject of mobile...
...salute from Dover Cas tle, was met in London by the heir to the Throne, the Duke of York, and took up residence in the house of a sister of one time U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Her husband, the Irish Earl of Granard, was Master of the Horse to King George and in the earl's house Carol II was styled officially a "guest of King Edward VIII," the explanation being offered that other foreign kings & queens were occupying all available suites in Buckingham Palace...
...Saint-Saens Danse Macabre which sounded extraordinarily vital, not a measure of it hackneyed or cheaply melodramatic. After the Rhine Journey from Wagner's Götterdammerung, the audience would have stayed long to cheer. But Toscanini was through. He bowed briefly, tugged at the concert master's sleeve, his own private sign that he wants the players to leave the stage...
Paramount and Fenway this week spend their evenings alternately donning buskin and sock in a felicitous double bill of "The Informer" and "Her Master's Voice". Victor McLaglen's astonishing ascent from his usual dead-pan broken-nose roles to his characterization of an informer in the Black and Tan uprisings in Dublin in 1922, giving away his pal to the police for the reward, attempting to drown his remorse in a night of mighty and generous carousal, and finally, confronted with the incontrovertible fact of his treachery, fleeing the vengeance of his pal's friends, only to be shot...
...Master's Voice" is more Edward Everett Horton. He gets into trouble with his wife, and then he gets out. But the present solution, which allows him to regain her wifely confidence by the simple expedient of his finding fame and fortune as a crooner, The Fireside Troubadour, and hence being in a position to dictate terms, gives a gay and irresponsible twist to this new story of the trials of Horton. Laura Hope Crews plays the repressed and libidinous aunt to Peggy Conklin, his estranged wife...