Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Moreover it has become customary in these affairs of late to secure the services of Cupid rather than those of the minister of state as marriage broker. But of course marital emancipation of royalty has only crept in with national indifference as to the outcome. It really doesn't matter very much who a prince marries as long as she is amiable and takes a good picture. Perhaps the Archduke realizes all this but finds it difficult to break a century old habit. He really deserves a lot of sympathy. Not that the Italian Indy hasn't every charm...
...matter of fact, there was little comment con, and less pro, if by comment is meant competent critical appraisal of the work of Mr. Kalish. His structural steel workers, choppers, diggers, pourers, are handled with the respect due to big muscles, energy and the artistic principles of the late Auguste Rodin. To use the means with which Rodin got at metaphysical truth, the forces behind men and women, figures erect and hazardously separated from the earth that put life in them-to use this means for reproducing, as by a good magazine illustration, the overalled figures of U. S. industry...
...test being read-aloud-able-ness, this last is only natural, but it is also quite necessary. Now that Dean Briggs is gone, "Copey" is the last of a vanished style in Harvard professors, in professors anywhere, for that matter. He himself is Dickensian, with his piercing glance to identify a caller or passerby, his two bachelor rooms in the garret of old Hollis, his quick replies which from a less amiable nature might be crabbed but from him seem wry and sprightly, and his remark in the introduction to his anthology: "As for Christmas...
...reported that most of the fraternities are in favor of rejecting the requirement, which may result in the abandoning of some of the usual functions next month. This action of the Williams faculty is undoubtedly motivated by a conscientious desire to remove an existing evil. But no matter how earnest its endeavor, the faculty can never accomplish its purpose without the cooperation of the students themselves. A pledge of the sort required can do little good by itself. Those sincere enough to refuse such a promise will lose their party, but drinking will not be decreased. Those who accept...
...Calvin Coolidge has shot his bolt. He's dead. His official spokesman is a spiritualist. And then take the matter of these people down in Nicaragua. I have never been acquainted with many of them, although one never knows whom he's going to meet in Cambridge. Yet I have a friend who is engaged to one and he says he really likes her. In fact he prefers her to the Roumanian outfit. Now she's probably representative of a lot of that bunch down there. Good fellows who like a little war once in a while...