Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...News explained that it was "not setting out to stop drinking among statesmen. ... It merely insists that the sickening hypocrisy in high places, now too general, shall no longer be accepted as a matter of course...
...difficulty for the News of escaping libel damages if it became explicit. Therefore, and perhaps because he thought his wandering habits had been hinted at by the News-for he is a militant Prohibitionist, though no hypocrite-Senator Caraway challenged the News to publish some names. There the matter rested. No names ap peared, Ohio's dry little Fess said: "I fully endorse that editorial. It is fine." Other Congressmen watched each other's steps...
...suavest man that ever picked up a 25¢ tip. His way of wearing a cigaret or a dress suit brought him almost instant cinema fame. Two years ago, his entertainment was impeccable. Since then his expression has taken on a tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner. In his latest film, A Night of Mystery, adapted from Victorien Sardou's Ferreol, he puts on the silken cloak of a gallant French officer as yawningly as a dull waiter ties a greasy apron around his belly. Mr. Menjou as Captain Ferreol is confronted with a tough problem: he must either reveal...
There are, as a matter of fact, only two seasons in the year when the graduates of the university have an opportunity to assemble, to foregather as it were on masse--that is in the fall at the football games and in the spring at the various functions specifically constituted to provide such an opportunity. Such a function is the convention at present in full swing. At it some 1500 delegates have met to renew the associations of yesteryear, and bring back to their respective Clubs possibly something of the spirit with which they were imbued in their undergraduate...
...HOUSTON, COLOSSUS IN BUCKSKIN-George Creel-Cosmopolitan ($3). The annexation of Texas was so much a matter of politics that the real issues, violent and blood-spattered, are dimmed. George Creel* brings them to light through the colorful story of Sam Houston, dreamer, drunkard, man of action. A youth, in Tennessee, he showed dangerous scholastic tendencies, poring over Pope's Iliad, so his brothers set him clerking in the village store. Seeking refuge with the Cherokees, Sam announced in grandiloquent terms worthy of his master, Pope, that he preferred measuring deer tracks to tape; and later married a squaw...