Word: masters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many times before, once again Lady Tichborne begged her husband to give them some of his land. The Master of Tichborne gazed coldly at his bedridden lady. "Very well," he said at last. "An you're so generous, you may give my land away-all that you yourself can walk around." With a grim laugh, he left the room. But Lady Tichborne, even her dying womanpower not to be underestimated, crept from her bed and down the stairs. By the end of the day, moving painfully on hands & knees, she had encircled 23 acres, known to this...
Even before he became the Jesuit Provincial (in 1945), sharp-featured Father D'Arcy had an unusually widespread influence. As Master of Oxford's Roman Catholic Campion Hall (for more than a decade), he turned its three-story building into a religious museum of valuable paintings, rare books, tokens. His urbane charm and cultivated mind have influenced a quarter-century's crop of Oxonians and helped bring many a British highbrow into his broadbrowed church...
...young argue with their elders, and the old will do anything not to seem disagreeable or responsible. . . . The citizens . . . get hot and angry at the least sign that they are not completely free. In the end they make light of the very laws themselves, so as to have no master whatsoever over them...
...people grant it-being afraid for him and not for themselves . . . and once he has this bodyguard, this champion of the people clears out his rivals and stands up-a perfect and finished tyrant-no longer the representative of the people but their absolute master...
Soon, "with the help of large-hearted students," Yogananda built his first U.S. GHQ: the Self-Realization Fellowship, near Los Angeles. Favored disciples-such as his barefooted, youthful American secretary, Mr. Wright; and Miss Ettie Bletch, "an elderly lady from Cincinnati" -accompanied the master on triumphal speaking tours. Another group of disciples, U.S. businessmen, built their Guru a splendid hermitage near San Diego ("jutting out [into the Pacific] like a great white ocean liner"). The hermitage was soon followed by two Self-Realization Churches of All Religions, one in Washington, D. C., one in Hollywood ("finished in blue, white...