Word: masters
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Year after year, Gordon Richards was a big winner, earning up to $120,000 a season. He got extra speed out of a horse by breaking fast from the post and being a master horse-handler all the way to the finish line. Unlike U.S. jockeys, who perch crablike on a horse's withers. Richards sits his horse with longer stirrups. When he uses the whip, which is seldom, he lays it on the horse near the shoulder, as English riders do. Last week, at 43, he won his 3,261st race, and that made him officially the world...
Congrats to TIME. The article on Italian Communism couldn't have been done up better by the old master himself-Hearst...
...minute talk "Jerry" has run through most of the emotions and theatrics undergone by an actor in half a lifetime. A master at satire, an expert at pantomime, overflowing with an intricate knowledge of some of the lesser known details in the lives of almost every English author, Professor Whiting has never played it straight...
...danger today. If the poetry of the rest of this century takes the line of development which seems to me . . the right course, it will discover new and more elaborate patterns of a diction now established. ... In this search it might have much to learn from [Milton] the greatest master of freedom within form in our language, outside the theater. ... It might also learn that the music of verse is strongest in poetry which has a definite meaning expressed in the properest words...
This short, admirable novel about the French Resistance is written in a prose style which suggests that Author Wertenbaker is a refugee from the dictatorship of Ernest Hemingway. But if he ever suffered under that brilliant dictatorship, he is his own master now. He has fashioned an unobstreperous, supple instrument with which he can handle whatever he pleases. With deceptive quietness, he chooses to handle a good deal...