Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Not that it is a matter of international importance, but merely that your excellent publication may, as always, correctly record the passing show-I call attention to two small errata in TIME, July 19, "Prairie Pantaloon" [p. 20] a) The father of Will Rogers was also of Cherokee descent, with about the same per cent of Indian blood, as the mother of the "Ambassador." No connection with Jingo, living or dead, b) Colonel Mulhall, not Muhlbach. POLLY CHU-WA-LOOKY...
Wellesley Hills, Mass. Sirs: I vote against the use of footnotes. Use parentheses and smaller type* for "footnote matter. ..." F. THURMOND MUDD...
...Heard, received from Premier Baldwin, assurances that the Government will take up the matter of "reforming prerogatives of the House of Lords"-restoring certain powers now in abeyance-" before the lifetime of the present Parliament expires...
...imprisoned in Poland and later in Siberia, he begged permission, lest inaction drive him mad, to empty daily all his fellow prisoners' latrines. Like a famished tiger, he thirsted for the revolutionary works of Marx, but (naturally) his gaolers were adamant on that point, though obliging in the matter of latrines...
BRAWNYMAN - James Stevens - Knopf ($2.50). The satisfying quality of this autobiogaphical chunk of Americana is that calm matter-of-factness which characterized the same author's chronicle of the great logger, Paul Bunyan. "Appanoose Jimmie" Stevens (changed to Turner in these pages), aged about 35, now lives with his parents in Tacoma, Wash., and, though he contributes successfully to the American Mercury, he has not yet succumbed to the green mists that often steam up from pages of print to obscure a new writer's picture of himself. Appanoose is still at heart the hobo team-hand that...