Word: concerning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quality products, but their line broadened to include nearly everything from delicate chronometers to the world's biggest clock, installed in 1924 in Colgate-Palmolive-Peet's Jersey City plant for the benefit of commuters across the Hudson River. Seth Thomas IV was president of his family concern from 1915 until the merger, when he became GTI's board chairman. He sired two daughters but no sons. After his death in 1932 the clock industry was without a Seth Thomas for the first time in nearly a century and a quarter...
FREDERICK ROBERTSON GRIFFIN: DOCTOR OF DIVINITY, of Philadelphia, pastor of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia since 1927. "A pastor and preacher of distinction, a worthy representative of the long line of spiritual leaders who have been the fruit of the Puritans' concern for a learned ministry...
...therefore out of our princely care for the preservation of the lawful rights and inheritances . . . have appointed our most dear brother and counselor, His Royal Highness Prince Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York ... to sit in the Council Chamber at Whitehall ... [so that all persons whom it may concern] may give their attendance for the exhibiting of their petitions and claims for performance...
Beatty's tortured concern over his symptoms, his delight when a doctor tries to cure him by tying his toe to his wife's ("modern medicine has made marvelous strides"), his involvement in a robbery and a murder, which he believes himself to have committed while sleepwalking, are above the average for double-bill comedy. Typical shot: Tessie Beatty, who believed she was on her way to Niagara Falls ("where Nature's majestic waters play a constant symphony"), reacting to the discovery that she is in a nut house...
...federal system worthy of the name, the local government has some powers, the central government has others, but SOME government must have all the powers. Here is a piece of legislation, Whether it is good, bad, or mediocre does not concern us. The point is: Congress cannot pass such a law; the state legislatures cannot pass such a law; and, until America becomes even more drugged than she is now, the Supreme Court can pass no laws at all. Where is sovereignty...