Word: masterful
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...that airy step of one who is well-fed and content with the universe. Yet now that this creature stands in the middle of our own clean carpet, was are rather obligate to decide what we will do with him. For though he arrogating pretends that he is the master, we know better. He is before us holy on sufferance is it not our carpet...
...fame of one, who has been endeared to them; futile because of the quick change of human conditions and the rapid forgetfulness of man. As has often been said, a man's best monument is the work that he has accomplished, and undoubtedly this is true of the great master of the American short-story, O. Henry. Those who knew him personally, and many who knew him through his writing alone, have done well, nevertheless, in establishing an Annual Memorial Award, as an inspiration for workers in the field of the short story, for by a definite form of recognition...
...Clay is in the United States in accordance with an arrangement made a short time ago between the Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and the President of Amherst, to send some of the best English economist to this country. Ernest Barker, of King's College, Oxford, was here late last year, and Mr. R. H. Tawney of Balliol earlier this year. Mr. Clay will return to England about midsummer...
...League is beginning to dawn on European minds. The Covenant was originated by our former President, who, while he probably considered himself a servant of his people, had no conclusive evidence as to the desires of those he undertook to represent, and consequently became a self-appointed master...
This raises a nice question in political philosophy as regards our democracy. Is the President of the United States rightly a master or a servant of the people? To say that he is a master is an obvious denial of the very purpose of a representative government. On the other hand, to require the President to submerge his abilities as a mere servant to those who choose him is absurd. In-so-far as all his power is derived from the people must he subordinate his personal biases to public opinion, and in-so-far as popular confidence...