Word: masters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cornwall's huntsmen stiffened in their saddles. "I never heard a hunted fox scream in my life," snorted Captain George Percival Williams, Master of the Four Burrow Hunt. Captain Williams stoutly denied that the fox was alive when the hounds touched it. "I was blowing my horn and everybody was making a devil of a row." Then he sued the vicar for libel. In court, Mr. Craven-Sands apologized to Captain Williams; he said that he had been wrong in believing that the fox was alive when thrown to the hounds. Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, counsel for Captain Williams, said...
...local county executives gave short shrift to a Labor bill recently introduced in Parliament "to prohibit the hunting and coursing of certain animals." If such a bill became law, they warned, "Labor's Minister of Agriculture could forget all about any future cooperation from farmers." In Yorkshire, the Master of the Bedale Hunt stood firm against the attack of a lifelong cripple who, denied the use of his arms, had seized a pen in his teeth to charge the Master of Foxhounds with throwing a live fox to his dogs. "I have never," said the huntsman, "thrown a live...
Prince Philip, 27, hailed by the London Master Tailors' Benevolent Association as the "perfect example of how a Briton should be dressed on all occasions," graciously accepted the honor: "I am one of the generation that started the war in nappies [diapers], spent the next eight years in uniform, and, when peace broke out, found myself without any clothes...
...around on his own, then blending in with the others when the clarinet or trombone soars off on the lead, Louis has wrung raves even from longer-haired critics. The New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson once said that Louis' style of improvisation made him "a master of musical art comparable only to the great castrati of the 18th Century...
Stuffy blames spring football for the decline of college baseball. "Most of the big high schools today have at least six weeks of football practice in the spring," he claims, "and at some schools, they say 'let the chemistry master coach the baseball team.' That's why a lot of your college players lack the fundamentals." Like football Coach Art Valpey, Stuffy believes in making sure every player knows the fundamentals. He taught them at Norwich University, Brooks School, and Amherst for 15 years...