Word: matter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serious matter was the late famed Joseph ("Joe") Chamberlain's daily practice of appearing in the House of Commons wearing an orchid. This extravagant tradition, though abandoned by his son Sir Austen Chamberlain, now Foreign Secretary, is still staunchly upheld by Sir Harry Brittain, M. P., who was chairman of the British Hospitality Committee for U. S. officers in London during...
...dance was in progress and the competitors, watching Mrs. McLaughlin (Irene Castle), felt tired, nettled. Mercedes Gleitz, 28, onetime London typist, English Channel swimmer,* last week broke her engagement to Private William Farrance of the British Army, whom she had met by mail. Said she: "I have thought the matter over and feel convinced that I shall never be able to settle clown as a wife until I have successfully swum the Irish Channel, the Wash, and the Hellespont. What is the use of letting a man make a home for me when in my thoughts the sea spells...
Pius XI?Ambrogio Domieno Achille Ratti, like the ninth Pius at the time of his death, is prisoned in the Vatican. Toward him no greedy Kings or Emperors cast envious eyes. The Catholic Church may own many lands but the Pope does not own any. Herein may lie subject matter for a Council...
Consider, for example, Montgomery Ward, mail-order house. During 1927, Montgomery Ward earned $10.25 per share, should therefore have opened 1928 (according to the "15X" system) at about 154. As a matter of fact, Montgomery Ward sold on Jan. 19, 1928, at $117, a figure considerably below 15X. But this figure was also Montgomery Ward's low for the year...
Being liberal these days is simply a matter of being more liberal than the next man. There are some who believe that Herbert Hoover is a radical. There are others who believe that Herbert Hoover?and H. L. Mencken and Norman Thomas?are old fogies...