Word: masterly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have decided to disclose the correspondence that has passed between ourselves and a House Master concerning coming subscription...
...candidate for Mayor WillB Hadley was no politician to stir apathetic Philadelphians to white heat. He was a master of figures, not words, a shy, frugal, philosophical man, whose chief joy was his 650-acre farm on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. If he was to have a political career he had to be dramatized. So he acquired a curious jack-of-all-political-trades named Samuel Davis Wilson. Mr. Wilson began issuing statements for Controller Hadley that made news: How city funds bought a barber's chair for City Solicitor Augustus Trask ("Dandy Gus) Ashton; how Coroner Schwarz...
Professor Jèze climaxed with a charge that Dictator Mussolini wants to master Ethiopians for the purpose of later hurling these fierce fighters against Europe in a final Armageddon...
...constant stream of songs, piano pieces and small instrumental numbers?parlor music in tune with the times which brought him increasing royalties. An able pianist, he got out of his depth when he tried to compose a piano concerto. Melody was easy but Nevin never managed to master counterpoint or orchestration. To his father, on whom he drew freely for his studies and trips, he wrote: "You would be proud if your son were to make a name and fame for himself thro' the gift he inherited? not of his own doings, but a God given talent." Nevin wrote...
Chairman Taylor's fourth major policy is at first blush paradoxical, involving both centralization and decentralization. Carnegie and Illinois Steels will be united under the control of a new organization, headed by Benjamin F. Fairless, a school-master-turned-steelmaster and now executive vice president of Steel Corp.'s second biggest competitor, Republic Steel. Steelmaster Fairless, however, will make his headquarters not in Manhattan but in Pittsburgh and will probably rule the most autonomous province in Steel's sprawling empire...