Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Damascus this fact was gorgeously demonstrated to little King Vittorio Emanuele and his tall white spouse. Here was a final detachment of the Papal Army, elaborately upholstered Gendarmes in fur busbies, varnished jack boots, flashing sabres. In a knot of red, pink, crimson, purple and white, stood the Grand Master of the Holy Hospice, the Secret Almoner, the Pope's Sacristan, Secret Chamberlains, Knights of the Cape and Sword, Noble Guards, Cardinals, Lay Gentlemen-in-Waiting...
...late Poetess Amy Lowell, J. Stanley Reeve has been called (last year by Town & Country) "The leading fox hunter of the leading fox hunting city in the country." Except for a few weeks many years ago when he substituted at Radnor he has never been a master of foxhounds. But he knows what M. F. H.'s like and how ordinary foxcatchers should comport themselves. Points and excerpts from his primer...
...When the Master . . . walks past you, lift your hat to him as you do to a lady or when passing a coach and four. . . . Don't ask him where he expects to draw. . . . Where he intends hounds to draw is his and his huntsman's affair, and not yours...
...announcement today of Mr. Coolidge's resignation from the board of trustees of the Watch and Ward Society removes all possibility of his being put in an anomalous position when he takes up the active duties of House Master next fall. As House Master he will in a way officially represent a relatively large group of Harvard mon, and his connection with a quasi-political organization such as the Watch and Ward might well be misinterpreted as lending a sort of Harvard support...
...well to point out that a College official such as the House Master not only identifies himself more closely with the properly nonpartisan attitude of the institution which he represents than does a professor but also comes into a new relationship with the undergraduate. The fact that many Harvard men are thoroughly out of sympathy with the aims and methods of the Watch and Ward Society makes it doubly desirable that University officials keep themselves from mixing in the many controversial questions with which the Society busies itself...