Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benito Juárez was president, and Mexico had just emerged from years of exhausting civil war. But there were die-hards among the defeated, and these had persuaded the ambitious emperor of the French that there was glory to be got in Mexico. There was also a little matter of unpaid Mexican debts in which Frenchmen were interested. Aware that the U.S., torn by its own civil war, could not interfere, Napoleon set out on an adventure that he expected would bring him fresh laurels (he had defeated Austria only three years before) and would put his protege...
...matter of fact, Sadie has never made the big leagues of quiz business. She hit her peak, as Mutual's Queen for a Day, in October 1945, when she won $400 worth of small prizes. Another time, she acquired a shiny new barber chair, which she sold for a secret but satisfactory...
When Dizzy Gillespie hit Sweden and Denmark, the halls were barely big enough to hold all the beboppers; in Paris, zealous French zazous (jazz fans) came to blows over him. Last week, Manhattan's Carnegie Hall was full of beboppers. Bebop* was apparently no laughing matter...
...talk about their "interesting new sounds." The high priest is Dizzy, 30, a South Carolina boy whose rapid-fire, scattershot talk has about the same pace-and content-as his music. Whether he, an obscure Manhattan pianist named Thelonius Monk or Saxophonist Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker invented bebop is a matter of learned dispute among beboppers...
...this might have gone unnoticed if Marks and Littell had not complained so after the Office of Alien Property Custodian seized Hyalsol in 1943. Marks and Littell were left in charge. The matter might have ended there if the pair had not sued OAP in 1946 for the return of the company. Then the Government dug deeper and came up with the indictment...