Word: masterson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Masterson...
...skill laid on. It begins in Abyssinia in afternoons hibiscus-red, rose-pink, iris-purple; in twilights of sapphire-matrix, gold lacquer, saffron fire, blood-scarlet; in sepia shadows of moonlight and, far and far away, star-spangled indigo of the lower sky. There, in a barbaric dawn, John Masterson, a normal middle-aged Englishman, ponders the news that he is heir to a fortune. Only a prayer-got sense of duty persuades him to accept it. Returning to London, he finds his fortune times and times bigger than expected. In fact it is millions and millions of pounds...
Listen. Before Masterson has had time to buy a decent suit of clothes, the Piccadilly crowd jostles him next to the girl with the sauciest lips, the most bewitching eyes in all the world. And within 24 hours a fashionable stockbroker, seeking Masterson's vast account, invites him to dinner with the woman of those lips, those eyes...
Those elected were Elmer Berry 1G.ed., I. R. Carey 2G.ed., R. I. Jacobs, 1G.ed., W. F. Keller 2G.ed., W. F. Linehan, 4G.ed., A. H. Lord 2G.ed., C. E. Marquardt 1G.ed., R. R. Masterson 2G.ed., T. W. Noon 2G.ed., J. C. Page 1G.ed., W. F. Pollard Jr. 2G.ed., W. J. Reed 2G.ed., C. R. Rounds 1G.ed., R. L. Wright 1G.ed...