Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...English Government, in my five years in office, has never interfered to the extent of a tittle or a scintilla in any Irish matter . . . .I pledge my faith and honor upon this...
...been trying to star her in a musical show all her own. Again the attempt is incomplete. It is every body's fault but Miss Lillie's. It is chiefly the fault of the men who wrote the jokes. Too often they are not jokes at all but matter like "I'm not a menial, if you get what I menial." There are inevitably excellent Tiller girls and a scattering of capable supporters and a plot about a man who had to pretend he was husband and father to inherit wealthy grandfather's gold. Nearly everyone agreed that Miss Lillie...
Those who have the cause of church unity at heart cannot help expressing profound regret at the encyclical, no matter how much it was to be expected; for the friendly and understanding attitude of such outstanding Romanists as Cardinal Mercier and his successor, who since the war have been periodically conferring with certain Angelicans on the subject of unity, have led us to hope that Rome was about to abandon its medieval intransigence...
...Widener authorities, fortunately, have not taken the sometimes trivial criticism levelled at them in the spirit of "Go on, we're down, step all over us!" No matter how busy they have been, they have always seemed willing to take on one more burden. They have welcomed criticism, shortcomings of which have been brought to light only under the acid test of the Reading Period...
...deeply regret the breach in athletic relations and the loss of the thrill that came with every contest against Princeton, but even more keenly do I regret that the fault in the matter appears to have been chiefly Harvard...