Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, unpredictable, printed nothing concerning a matter which would interest many of its readers. ... I refer to a recent issue of the Penn State Froth, which was a parody on TIME. In this parody the opportunity was taken to "razz" many of the pet aversions of the student body as represented by the Froth Staff. It appears that many of these aversions happened to be faculty men-or higher. Not obscene, it was not forbidden the mails, nor was the sale of it in the college prohibited. But-and I have this from a student-the editor was asked...
...supposed to be definite assurance of your support . . . etc., etc." Candidate Willis professed not to understand that Mr. Maschke had politely dropped him. Mr. Maschke elucidated: "Senator Willis' attitude has changed completely since he first talked with me on this matter in my home in November. At that time he said he wanted the compliment of being Ohio's candidate. . . . Since then he has taken the position that none of his delegates can vote for anyone else...
Electioneering. With the matter of those to be tried thus disposed of, Premier Poincare turned to electioneering pure and simple. Fervently, though at times sketching the truth, he cried: "France never formulated the idea of revanche*. . . We waited immobile and anxious before the sphinx of Destiny until the day when the Imperial Governments of Austria and Germany, drunk with pride, loosed on their peoples and ours that catastrophe which until the last minute we strove to avoid. . . . On that day of days we were free again, and we swore never to lay down our arms before we had assured...
...limitations of the stuff of humor are not merely those of subject matter. One may learn to countenance the abnormal interest shown by columnists, particularly of tabloid newspapers, in the crime of passion. Such writers are rarely credited with sober or mature thought on the evidence at hand. The penalty of an otherwise happy profession is that all ears are turned to the wisecrackery of the fool and none to the expressions of his opinion. There is thus a peculiarly personal application of the law of conservation of energy in the life of the humorist...
...unsatisfactory. J. Campbell White, General Secretary of the League, pointed out that church members had reached a point in working for foreign missions beyond which they should not go until they had done more efficient missionary work in their own communities. Said an Episcopal official: "What's the matter? Spiritual inertia and laziness." Missionary C. H. Fenn, home on furlough, spoke in metaphor, saying that the church was infected with "fatty degeneration of the heart, pernicious anemia, cerebrospinal meningitis, cancer, and neuritis." Not the least cogent and discouraging explanation was supplied by the New York Herald-Tribune which mischievously...