Word: masters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...during his address to slender, slant-eyed students of both sexes at the New Nationalist University in Nanking. The students barkened breathlessly, not only because Feng is China's heroic Daniel Boone, but because he is also War Minister of the new Chinese Nationalist State and moreover absolute master of a private and pioneering army of 150,000 men (TIME...
...devotion to his country is rivalled only by his love for his wife, Josephine. But regardless of whether or not Mr. Caesar has pilloried his own ideas and regardless of what you think of Napoleon you can understand the predicament of a barber who, burning with hatred of his master, finds himself passing a sharp razor over the sallow, imperial throat. The plot is not developed as it would be in an old-fashioned picture but as in Mr. Caesar's play, by succinct and fairly inoffensive dialog...
...master tricksters of the vaudeville stage can hardly duplicate in magnitude the work of the unseen gnomes that make possible the housing of such a variety of sporting and non-sporting events under a single roof...
...criticism has been whispered by anyone worthy of being heard and the extant words in praise of the piece are made unconvincing by halting qualification. If the painting is as bad as Mr. Pachs says it is, there is nothing to be gained by holding it up as a master work of a great painter. Undoubtedly the most conspicuous work of art in Harvard College, it has potentially the greatest chance of influencing the taste of Harvard...
Last week the Greenwich House, Manhattan, Workshops opened, a workshop where Italian boys are apprenticed in the old tradition to a master cabinet maker-Nicola Famiglietti, once of Naples. In the little house on Jones Street, designed by Delano & Aldrich, architects for Greenwich House itself, there are, not classes, but a guild of young boys whose ancestors may have been famed violin makers or stone cutters of Italy, or sculptors whose talents have descended to a generation unrealized were it not for Greenwich House and Victor Salvatore, who lends his time and enthusiasm and wise counsel to the development...