Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Ruddy is a huge, bald, splotchy man, the greatest water poloist in history, an Olympic swimmer, master of 26 sports, rescuer of some 150 lives, winner of a Congressional Medal for Life Saving and 1,000 assorted athletic cups, badges, plaques. He is the father of five expert swimmers and water poloists, one of whom, Joseph Jr., captained an Annapolis team in 1931. At the New York Athletic Club, where Ruddy is coach of the nation's championship water polo team (TIME, April i), members boast that no one has yet equaled Joe Ruddy's record...
...acre estate at Wyntoon, a 270,000-acre estate at San Simeon. According to FORTUNE, Mr. Hearst's income is not $1,000,000 but around $4,000,000, and the idea of passing over a $580,000 income tax check to California was extremely repugnant to the master of $220,000,000 worth of newspapers, magazines, radio stations, cinema companies, real estate, gold mines, silver mines, cattle, chicle and forest...
...TIME, Dec. 10). But last week Egyptians boiled with demands that their lickspit Premier Tewfik Nessim Pasha should at least make the turning to Alexandria into Britain's main Mediterranean war base the occasion for wangling some heavy palm oil out of his and Egypt's master, Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson. British High Commissioner to the Inde pendent Kingdom of Egypt...
...outstanding lesson in the art of British politics was afforded last week by its great master. A simple date and his reasons for choosing it gave the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin all the scope a political artist needs to run the whole gamut of his virtuosity. The situation: The Prime Minister was about to call a sudden ''snap election" on Nov. 14 because he thinks his government can win more votes on their foreign policy amid Europe's present state of alarm than they possibly could on their domestic record quietly considered...
Emotional mass-meetings, with all the concomitants of hecklers, amateur witlings, and plain fools, can solve nothing. Emotions of War must be fought with emotions of peace, it is true, but peace, without a strong alliance with Reason, can never hope to prevail against the master of passion-lashers, the greatest demagogue of them all-the spirit of the parade and of the brass band...