Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time representatives of the conductors and trainmen of Eastern lines were preparing to convene in Manhattan with their operators to discuss their wage increases. These trades want 20% increase, which will mean, if applied throughout the nation, $90,000,000 more in pay. The matter will probably not be decided before late December...
...Anti-Saloon League, at least the House should not let a breath of the affair get outside. It is quite a pity that with all the strength on his side, as shown by the House's vote against Salter, the Premier could not have shown more spirit in the matter either by declaring himself in favor of a cleaner Commons or of a strict laisser-faire policy in regard to the personal rights of the Members of Parliament. Instead, he merely decried the fact that news of the existing exhilaration of various members should soil the name of the House...
...that he is getting into something a little aesthetic or sophomoric or otherwise disconcerting when he opens its pages, and that if he is going to read something it would perhaps be better to lose himself in the standard graces of "The Saturday Evening Post." The reviewer, as a matter of fact, approached the flaming, covers of the Advocate in much that frame of mind. In days gone by he, too, had been an editor of the Advocate...
...lady from the sea, alone succeeds in dodging the grand manner and that only on occasion. Jewett, as the Stranger who threatens the Wangels' domesticity, is as pompous and unconvincing of the hollow, haunting eye, as a Falstaff. Professor Arnholm is often a pint-size Jewett, but no matter, the focus is rarely upon...
...that the unforgiving light of Ibson's querying is focused. And it is upon her that the whole burden of the play must fall. The unfolding of the story which is in reality an unfolding of her mind, a mind wedded to the sea, is a rapid matter, swift, sure and inevitable up to the very close. A Duse alone could maintain the tempo, with no waste gestures, no amateur hysterics which might interrupt the play's relentlessness. Two weeks of rehearsal of such a part sound farewal. Yet that is all the preparation. It is to be supposed, that...