Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beside the Kellogg program, the many treaties of arbitration and conciliation effected by President Wilson's Secretary of State, the late William Jennings Bryan, appear to have shrunken to documents of small importance. Secretary Kellogg has renewed the Bryan treaties when they expired as a matter of merest routine. One day last week he sat down and affixed his signature to a fresh batch-arbitration and conciliation treaties with Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia...
...denounce as unfair, unmanly and un-American this slanderous attack upon me and my record. I am glad to have this matter taken out of the whispering stage and put into the open...
Concluding with a reference to finance, Jonkheer Beelaerts said: "In 1924 we obtained an American loan of $40,000,000 which will be repaid in 1929. That loan was raised in America not because we could not get money in Holland, but as a matter of deliberate policy...
...Miss Ramsay's hands a prosaic Corn Law becomes a matter of fiery drama, and the most eventful period of British parliamentary history becomes the most exciting; Her lucid analysis of the political situation sets the stage, her vivid incidental sketches of "Dis," Lord Pam, Victoria, people it. Impartial, she creates Peel with all his faults of temper, tactlessness and lack of humor, but sets him centre stage in all his grandeur as England's greatest Premier...
Before the premiere, there was some feeling that the play would be offensive to Manhattan God-fearers; disputes arose in matter of how much its bitterness should be quieted to avoid the censor. It was not toned down much. A Cross was visible in lecherous episodes and Sharon's trumpets had jazz-mutes in them. Ructions among the producers led to postponements and the retirement of William A. Brady from his sponsorship. On the first night, the press agent, having left his job, leaped upon the stage with Sharon's converts, voicing a mock repentance. The crude vigor...