Word: masterful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Chicago Daily Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," is not afraid to place itself in famous company. Recently it took its stand beside Dean Jonathan Swift, master of the most devastating satire ever known. When Swift wrote his Modest Proposal for disposing of excess Irish population by feeding children of the Irish poor as hors d'oeuvre to the well-to-do, he was taken seriously by his countrymen and for a time ostracized. The Tribune, far from profiting by the Dean's experience, printed instructions on How to Kill a Child...
This last Monet gives a corner of a flower garden with the sunset showing through the Summer leaves. Its breathless passion of color draws all eyes to it. Monet is master without contemporary peer. Can he be blind...
...that there were negotiations about Piccaver's coming to the same institution, but that he demanded much money, reasoning that his high place in Viennese opera was secure and that the U.S. is a hard land to conquer, especially for an American. Jeritza came, and he remained the undisputed master of the upper Danube...
...Genouilhac armor for man and horse, worn by Louis XII's master of artillery and his mount in 1527, has been added to the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan, and mounted on a model of the famous horse in Verrocchio's equestrian statue of Bartolommeo Colleone, the Venetian...
John D. Rockefeller: "The Chicago Daily Tribune ran the headline: MRS. MAX OSER TO MAKE JOHN D. GREAT-GRAN'DAD. The news came from Lake Neuchatel, Switzer land, where Mathilde McCormick Oser, my granddaughter, and her husband, a Swiss riding master, have a chateau. The interesting family event is expected soon after Christmas...