Word: masters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fellows fawn before wealth) you neglected to state that this prominent member of the nouveau riche is the wife of a man, who after growing rich under Republican regimes and policies, deserted his party SOLELY FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS. His talk about prohibition is THE BUNK. He obeyed his master the pope, in the same way that "Everything" Al would obey that master...
When he looked up from the telegram, the President seemed to become Feldmarschall as of old. Curt orders fired rapidly at the equerry replaced the ponderous, civilian manner of Old Paul von Hindenburg. The murdered man had been his personal military servant throughout the War, and long previous. Master and servant were born on the same day-four score years ago. They grew up together in the army of Imperial Germany. As President of the Republic, Great Paul von Hindenburg remembered his poor old friend every year with a gift of money, on their joint birthdays...
...days schoolmasters kept terrible watch over their students when examination days came to pass. Should a student peer too curiously at his shirt cuff, he would be summoned to the master's desk. In the old days, masters often spanked...
More recently many schools and colleges in the U. S. adopted the honor system. During examination hours, therefore, schoolmasters could do anything they liked. They could titter over Petronius, they could play golf. Life became easy for the masters (from magister [Latin]: master, director, superintendent) during examination hours...
...Somewhere there is a Master Mind which sends brain waves or messages to us-the Brain of Mankind, the Brain of the Earth...