Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definitely did not turn out to greet prodigal Mr. Walker. "Fighting Al" Smith had other business. Onetime Official Greeter Grover Whalen, a decorative member of the old Walker entourage, and little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, Walker's Broadway companion, discreetly left town before his ship reached Quarantine. But the Master Brewers' Association, grateful for Walker's fantastic Beer Parade of 1932. was at the dock 2,000 strong. The Grand Street Boys and other sodalities with nothing to lose by consorting with the ex-Mayor had hired a dozen boats on which to welcome him home. The Press...
...What birds live in the Tower? Can the Charles, even as now, be seen? Do the Moon and the Stars peep in now and then? May the Vagabond have Alice and Bill the Lizard and the Walrus and the Hatter and anyone else he wishes? Will he, good Master, be free and allowed to journey his own way? And there'll be no rent, dear Sir? Alas! Alas...
...snap is a low trick, nonetheless low for being common, and it was the master's task last week to make it appear lofty. Since he had asked the King to dissolve Parliament last week a full year before its term is up. Mr. Baldwin wished to quote the late great Lord Macaulay as as approving such a move. "The words I am going to quote do not come together in context," confessed the Prime Minister putting together snatches of Macaulay and quoting him as having written: "A wise Minister will always dissolve a year before...
Lieutenant Bill Gordon (William Powell) is a master of enciphering and deciphering codes, conceals the fact from his superiors because he hankers for action at the front. He makes the mistake of telling this to Joel (Rosalind Russell), a girl whom he meets at a charity bazaar and who falls shamelessly in love with him. When she tells her uncle, the Assistant Secretary of War, about his talents, Gordon is ordered to a desk in the decoding room. Disgruntled but still as suave as ever, Gordon decodes intercepted German wirelesses which show a U. S. transport in danger, comes...
...Olympics Games has become a function of the German Government under the direction of "Tschammor-Osten", an appointee of Hitler. Tschammor-Osten through the "Sports Service" of the German News Bureau announced that in the future, "Winners of athletic contests in the Third Reich may be only those who master National Socialist idealogy and who make known that not only in athletic contests but also in nationalistic life, do they stand up for that ideology". The President of the A.A.U. agrees with the New York Times that "participation in the games under the Swastika implies the tacit approval...