Word: matter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left Britain proud. When the diplomats have failed and the smoke gets thick, something happens to the blood of English men of action. Crecy, Blenheim, Waterloo, the Armada, Cape Trafalgar, Jutland have shown that it is not equipment but spirit which wins battles for Britain. It did not matter, therefore, that when King George VI, who personally owns more ships than anyone else in the world,* went out into the fog and drizzle in Weymouth Bay last week, what he saw was 133 ghosts-some of them round-bellied, rust-patched, long since war-weary. What counted was their complement...
When the shooting was all over, members rejoiced in the thought that no matter what home-folks think, this autumn there is no election. Some wandered up to the press-galleries to sit in a last pitch-game with newshawks and cameramen, chipping in to send a boy across the plaza for a bottle. Some went directly to Union Station, where wives awaited them on made-up trains. And some took time to total up the spirited 76th's box score: found that this Congress had defied Franklin Roosevelt's will twelve times, knuckled under only four times...
General Gamelin is very easily approached, his voice is quiet and he is always calm. ("It's no use getting angry at things, it's a matter of indifference to them.") His well-trained memory is still prodigious. He is said not only to know every road near any French frontier, but also to know by name and sight every French officer down through the rank of colonel. He is not chummy with his staff, but treats them with what they call "benevolent formality...
Bishop Ablewhite resigned last March, when shortages of some $99,000 were discovered in the funds of his diocese. Ordinarily, the matter would not have been discussed until the bishop's resignation came before the Episcopal House of Bishops, at its meeting next November. But last month two Michigan laymen brought suit against the bishop and four trustees, demanding an accounting and restitution of the funds. And last week the Chicago Tribune splashed out stories picturing 51-year-old Bishop Ablewhite as a worldly prelate, a drinker of Scotch whiskey and champagne...
...daily. Wives with husband trouble will read that they must be patient. Husbands in woman scrapes will read that they must not cheat. But fluttery, did-I-do-wrong girls will be happy to learn Author Dix's basic philosophy, that Balzac long ago stated more picturesquely: "No matter how black the pot may be, it can always find a lid." A young girl's fancies, suggests Author Dix, should be pretty well taken up with locating that...