Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Master of Music...
...question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master-that...
What Bolshevism's planners think of Bolshevism's executors pungently appeared last week at a Congress of Master Builders in the Kremlin with Dictator Joseph Stalin and most other Soviet bigwigs present. To make the opening speech Russia's cloistered priesthood of planners, the Gosplan, sent their economic abbot, Comrade Valerian Ivanovich Mezhlauk, chairman of the State Planning Commission...
...Tale of Two Cities cost an even million dollars. Acknowledging in a formal "bibliography" on the screen its debt to Carlyle and other authorities on the period, it goes far beyond the limitations of the Dickens story. Director Jack Conway, whom Selznick says he chose because Conway is "a master of melodrama, and a big, good-natured, sentimental Irishman," has photographed the storming of the Bastille as if it happened yesterday afternoon. The whole picture constitutes a record of one of history's most melodramatic moments told in an idiom equal to its subject, from a skeleton designed...
...resigned as finance committee chairman of U. S. Steel Corp. He will be succeeded in this No. 2 job in the biggest industrial enterprise in the U. S. by a remarkable young man just half his age. The old man was William J. Filbert, bald, popeyed, secretive master of Steel's endless columns of statistics. Presumably he was 70, Steel's compulsory retirement age, since it was inconceivable that Mr. Filbert would quit voluntarily. One of the few ascertainable dates in Mr. Filbert's virtually dateless career is 1881, the year he went to work for Chicago...