Word: masterful
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...headed them into the controller's office, then into the office of the promotion manager. There he ordered a right face, and they went on into the office of John B. and Tracy Drake. Immensely pleased with himself as a drill master, he marched them back through all the offices to the room from which they had started. "To the rear, MARCH...
John Singer Sargent because, when he was a youth, he had beheld Velazquez' painting, and with discernment enough to realize that he beheld an immortal example of a great master's ability to triumph over his subject, he had copied the picture in the nicest oil-colors on his palet...
...though unfamiliar name) because, when the hammer descended with its above-onomatopeotized concussion, the noise was no more than a polite acknowledgement from Christie's auctioneer of Mr. Vanderneut's right to pay 6,000 guineas (about $30,000) for Sargent's earnest copy of a master's struggle with difficulties...
Griffith, greatest of directors, has temporarily abandoned the production of vast pageants for the more commercial program picture. This one is adapted from a musical comedy (Poppy) which gave him no master narrative. But he did have the master stage comedian W. C. Fields, and between them they have worked out just about the most amusing comedy that you will recall this year. It is a circus story of the little heroine brought up by the three-card-monte man. There is the rich Peyton Lennox for her later on. She is Carol Dempster and he is Alfred Lunt...
...British iron and steel industry is at present very much a child of misfortune. Everyone's hand is against it except Premier Baldwin's-himself an important steel master-yet the Premier seems powerless to avert depression from his own trade...