pastmaster

A pastmaster at internal intrigue, Brown will thrive as his actors compete – divide and conquer.

It is immaterial who fronts Labour’s campaign 2010

A pastmaster at internal intrigue, Brown will thrive as his actors compete – divide and conquer.

Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2010

The Boss is a pastmaster at side-tracking soreheads, but there's a point involved in this case that he doesn't grasp.

The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

He also grinds out official letters and reports by the sweat of his brow, and is gradually becoming a pastmaster in the art of "having the honour to be" somebody else's "obedient servant."

Stand By! Naval Sketches and Stories 1925

Though our brother in white is pastmaster in the crimes alleged to the colored race we know this fact does not in the least absolve from personal responsibility nor from the consequences of wrong doing.

My Own Life Story Sterling Nelson 1924

Though the phrase was not used in his time, he was a pastmaster in the art of making “slogans.”

The Adventure of Living Strachey, John St Loe 1922

The boy was always talking about the business these days, and he found always a ready listener in the old man who was such a pastmaster in the whole difficult subject.

The Twenty-Fourth of June 1912

"But that's to be expected of a man who's been a pastmaster all his life in understanding and dealing with human nature."

The Twenty-Fourth of June 1912

To an Englishman, who was a pastmaster in the noble art of using fists and knees to advantage, the situation was neither uncommon nor very perilous.

The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

Guard, and Napoleon, with that inimitable verve and inspiring eloquence of which he was pastmaster, was haranguing his troops.

The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906