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Word: masterly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart. With such topics for preliminary talk it was not necessary to dwell on the Prime Minister's post-election statement that "the people of Canada are opposed to planning for scarcity by the restriction of production. . . ." That night the President of the U. S., who is a master at conciliating even his most critical callers, and the Prime Minister of Canada, noted in his own country as a great "harmonizer," went to bed under the same roof, each thinking the other was a fine fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Pleasant Thing | 11/18/1935 | See Source »

...Harvard Corporation; Robert Grant, later the beloved Judge Grant; Henry Grant, his brother; Charlie Prince, the banker; Henry Morse; William O. Sanger, Assistant Secretary of War under Teddy Roosevelt; George Wigglesworth, later member of the board of Overseers and President of the Alumni Association; W. R. Tyler, later Head Master of Adams Academy; and many others who proved to be quite as good citizens as those who were decrying football...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Football, as an Organized Sport, Ceased to Form Initiation Battle for Freshmen, Knox Explains | 11/13/1935 | See Source »

...actors. Although they are professional mummers, Tommy and most of his gang seem to come straight from Manhattan's slummy East Side. When they play gutter poker, knock each other down or yell, "You stink on ice!" they do so with great natural gusto and authority. Because of Master Halop & Co. and Designer Geddes' work. Dead End belongs on any theatrical "must" list...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 11, 1935 | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...tried to woo away some of Stern's best men. Politics rather than personalities were at the bottom of their grudge fight. Out in the open last week it took on new proportions. Besides reprinting the Hearst attack on the New Deal, New Dealer Stern editorially challenged the master of San Simeon thus on the Record's front page: "Let Hearst, arch reactionary, battle the liberal Record at close range, and let Philadelphia citizens be the jury. . . . Philadelphia is one of the few cities in the country where Mr. Hearst has to pay for space to place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Philadelphia Feud | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

...this period he wrote The Marriage of Figaro, which Louis XVI promptly suppressed. A brilliant comedy, relating the conflict of a lackey and his noble master, its revolutionary implications were plain, for it presented the lackey as witty, resourceful, strong. For the first time, a member of the lower class was pictured as a hero on the formal Paris stage. Inconsistently, the bored nobles demanded the presentation of a play which ridiculed them and delighted the masses, forced Louis to withdraw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back-Door Dramatist | 11/11/1935 | See Source »

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