Word: masters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during the filming of Down to the Sea in Ships. The Charles W. Morgan has been, through the interest of Col. Green and others, made into a whaling museum, rigged and outfitted as she was when she was built and made her first voyage in 1849. Aboard her as master is Capt. George Fred Tilton, whose autobiography, Cap'n George Fred, was published by Doubleday, Doran in 1928. He is the last of the old whaling skip pers. His book is interesting, but his lectures are far more so, and intimate talks with him (aided and abetted by certain...
These words had hardly rebounded from the Heaviside Layer when Jouette Shouse, Quarter-Master-General of the Democratic Army, seized the microphone and cried: "We have heard from self-appointed in- terpreters, who continue to assert that Mr. Hoover will not stand for a wholesale tariff raid. But what sort of chief executive is it who would permit his own Congress to make a larcenous hash of its whole session...
...Major which is heard in the U. S. chiefly on a phonograph record by Violinist Fritz Kreisler. Ambassador Dawes is today a London vogue. So, reported Publishers Boosey & Co., is his Melody in A Major. Orchestras play it in leading restaurants. Sheet-music sales are great. His Master's Voice and the Columbia companies will soon issue new recordings. Fortnight ago William F. Kenny, rich...
...stroke: "No one will make the unpardonable mistake of thinking my ministerial changes mean any change in the policy of my Government ! Never before have I felt so strongly all the living actuality of the Fascist doctrine by which the state is centered in one person who is complete master. Some idolaters call this a 'Dictatorship' and proudly we acknowledge it!" Evidently Benito was only exercising once more his taste and genius for amateur theatricals. "For the 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity' of the French Revolution," he roared, "the Fascist Revolution substituted, 'Authority, Order. Justice...
...Argentine circusgoers missed their Living Corpse, managers searched for a successor. Last week the rococo façade of Buenos Aires' Cirque Cordoba billed another "Blackamon, the Living Corpse." The new Blackamon, who had been one of the original Living Corpse's assistants, omitted his former master's self perforations last week, but successfully went into his trance, was buried in his glass-fronted coffin. Three hours later the sand was shoveled away, spotlights focussed on the coffin...