Word: masters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...infuriated thousands. He was a busybody and an office tyrant, who fired (and rehired) stenographers almost daily, roared epithets at underlings. He was a master at political conniving. He engaged in feuds with City Hall reporters, once had a New York Times man tailed, and triumphantly told the reporter's boss that he was spending some of his working time at race tracks. Once, in his fury against bookmakers, he asked children to tattle to him when their fathers gambled. He had the candor to admit his shortcomings: "When I make a mistake, it's a beaut...
...cheng is commander of the Communists' Shantung-Shensi-Hopeh-Honan military areas. Chinese Communists, who regard him as a master of mobile warfare, have a new nickname for him: Chang-shen Chiang-chun (Always Victorious General...
Conrad was a master not only of English words but of various devices of storytelling, including what Mr. Zabel describes as "a complicated exercise of the mode of averted suspense"-enough so to drive his fascinated reader, at times, nearly to distraction. In its progression, elaboration and somber irony, his prose rarely loses for long the immediate visual impact of phrases such as the one describing Kurtz, emaciated yet commanding, sitting up to harangue the natives in Heart of Darkness: "I could see the cage of his ribs all astir, the bones of his arm waving...
Four men have volunteered at Dunster House, Housemaster Clarence H. Haring '07, said last night, while David M. Little '18, Master of Adams House, disclosed that volunteering has been "favorable under the circumstances...
...punctuated by the pipe-dream of a home in Pennsylvania's Bucks County are due for a rude awakening. Long fabled as the city dweller's Valhalla, a land inhabited by glittering artistic folk and their swimming pools, ol debbil Bucks County squirms evilly under the pen of master funnyman S. J. Perelman. In this newest offering, Mr. Perelman has created a sometimes hilarious expose of a plague spot overgrown with Japanese beetles and a gigantic land crab often called "the rustic...