Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...liberty to eat pie, all kinds of pie. This school founded its major premise on Tunney's shout in the office of a Wall Street broker, as he did a merry dance: "I am free, free. Yes, free to eat lemon meringue pie-or anything else for that matter...
...Impalpable ministers of safety and service hover about the master of the Minnewaska. To accomplish this feat of systematic searching the ship was diverted 341 miles from its track. The Atlantic Transport Company wirelessed the Captain, "You were fortunate to carry out rules of sea and save souls, no matter conditions." The plane was not saved...
...burial alive in the walls of a monastery. Superstition errs; the apostate nun undergoes no stipulated censure. If she suffers at all it is from the barb of conscience or the irrelevant condemnation of busybodies. Having obtained a dispensation from Rome she may even re-enter the cloister, no matter what prompted her to abscond. Penitent, she is easily forgiven...
Many a fortunate Parisian hastened, last week, from the grand openings of the dressmakers to ponder how she should persuade her husband that no matter how chic she might appear in his eyes, in truth she would be in rags unless her wardrobe conformed to these newly-pronounced edicts...
...Significance. Chicago's bootleg feuds, machine gun riots, gang run politics, are matter of course; but the inside story is still matter of conjecture. Author Kantor provides likely data for the conjecture, but his inside story is of an innocent accomplice who obeys with a thrill, and wonders what it is all about...