Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impending dispute that is of more personal interest to the people of the United States. Although the imbroglio in which this country and Great Britain have become involved over the sinking of an alleged rum-runner does not arise from conflicting opinions of Nationalists or Revolutionists, it is a matter of internal government that threatens to become a question of international importance...
They had called a priest, weeks ago, and the Generalissimo lived on. The Associated Press had reported "authoritatively" that he could live "one week or ten days at most," but already old Campaigner Ferdinand Foch had doubled that span. What matter if Death took him at the next clock-tick? Already he had fooled them all, and a man may call a joke a joke and die with all decorum and honor when...
Last week. Bambino Romano, not yet turned 18 months, was completely forgotten as Milan tea table gossips buzzed. The secret was not that Donna Rachele Mussolini is burgeoning again, though as a matter of fact she is. The terrific and appalling piece of gossip was that Donna Rachele recently said to a most intimate-and seemingly most faithless-friend: "I am still a Socialist at heart. I could not turn Fascist with Nito...
...white hedonist basking deliciously among South Sea Islanders and a sturdy Cape Codder poising his malicious harpoon over boiling seas, join incongruously in the popular impression of Herman Melville. As a matter of fact, he was born of eminently conforming New Englanders and but for a few glorious seagoing years, lived drably enough as an indifferent farmer, writing feverishly in the slack winter season. Failing as farmer, failing too as popular writer, he aspired to a post at some foreign consulate, but had to content himself with a job as customs inspector. He once described the post as "a most...
Cornell University has been making a study of egg deterioration and preservation. Last week Paul Francis Sharp, Cornell's professor of dairy chemistry, who has been working on the matter with other Cornell men, wrote a preliminary report to Science. Eggs spoil, he stated, because...