Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soil and "panned" it for diamonds, each man with his own teetering sieve. Since "diamond earth" occurs in huge cones pointing downward, the diggers soon found their open pits were becoming death traps as "mud rushes" (slides) caved in upon them from the perimeter. Subsoil mining followed as a matter of course, but subsoil mining is expensive. It was in forming the great mining syndicates which bought out the open pit "little fellows" and sunk deep mines that such men as Cecil Rhodes amassed great fortunes- and Barney Barnato was not far behind Rhodes in diamond wealth...
...whom the most notable is the son of Mme. Zizi Lambrino, his one-time morganatic wife. Her suit to establish the legitimacy of her son (TIME, Nov. 29) was thrown out of court last week, in Paris, the judge considering that only Rumanian courts are competent to adjudicate the matter...
Mogul v. Cadet. At the moment, the "Presidency" of China is a matter of insignificance in a land so torn by anarchy that only the military are of account. Last week the Pekingese War Lord Chang Tso-lin, temperamentally a cruel, picturesque, luxurious "Great Mogul" began his expected offensive against the Cantonese (TIME, Dec. 6), by issuing a statement shrewdly designed to win Occidental sympathy: "I am fighting not only in behalf of China, but in behalf of the World. ... The menace of Bolshevism is a world menace and the Cantonese are Bolsheviks. . . . Whether I win or lose is personally...
...date with a bootleg plot. Carrie's no-account spouse has committed the indiscretion of appropriating $2,000 in Kennebec ferry fares. Babe, a genial-villainous, gold-toothed brother-in-law from Manhattan lends the sum-when allowed to use the family barn for liquor storage. As a matter of principle, Carrie at length enters objection, threatens exposure; Babe submits; Carrie, principle gained, withdraws objection. One scene stages the home-watched coffin of Father Ned, for realistic, mainly risible character study. Although the construction is loose-jointed, this is rather good old-time melodrama. The dialogue has genuine folk...
...that of the civilized world. The lycee and the gymnasium complete the general education of the French and German young man and woman preparatory to taking up graduate or professional education. These young people are generally eighteen years old when they complete their work and have covered subject matter which is now practically everywhere accepted as the equivalent to the conclusion of our sophomore year...