Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject- one, by Thomas Burke, appeared in the O'Brien anthology of Britsh Short Stories for 1923; the other, by one Frances Hammond (I think) in Snappy Stories in August, 1923. The latter was a genuinely fine piece of literature, and it is too bad that its subject matter condemned it to a magazine much looked down upon. It's title was "The Souvenir." In The Mill on the Floss George Eliot says: "I speak to those who have felt the delicious resistance of hair to shears," or words to that effect. I wonder...
...Tabloids" have come to be known, not for their handy size but for the low-matter most of them print...
...come into contact with moral pitch visually or orally is defiling, and to sit through one suggestive play, except for the purpose of protesting to newspaper, police department, priest or minister in an effort to stir up indignation against it, is to consent to defilement. This is a matter in which whoever does not condemn, condones, and to condone immorality is a ghastly business for the citizens of any Christian country to be engaged...
...edited by Otis L. Wiese, 23, gives advice on how to raise children, set table, cook meals, keep the house neat, the cellar clean. Its fiction is Zane Greyish, its articles "nicely" written. Aimed at the "model" housewife or Girl Scout, it contains no cigaret advertisements, no suggestive matter...
Next day, Sunday, under a threatening sky and the scrutiny of more than 5,000 pairs of eyes, Jones and Espinosa, having taken their wives to church, played together. Almost casually Jones scored 372 while Espinosa struggled around to a shocking 84. That really decided the matter but the rules called for another 18 holes. Jones treated the gallery to a dazzling 69, which he later called his "most perfect round.'' while Espinosa struggled around again, this time...