Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...done by Notman's Studio. Hours of appointments have been made, beginning tomorrow. The committee emphasized the need of keeping these dates, or of making another appointment for as early a time as possible. The appearance of each man's picture in the Album is a matter of personal responsibility, it was said...
MAYBE it can be done. They tell us, now that Queen Elizabeth was a man, and hid it from everybody but a chosen few for a matter of half a century. This book, evidently, is an expose of the way she did it, except that, by reverse English, the girl in the book was really a woman...
...plot is unconvincing enough to form the basis of any musical comedy, and, as a matter of fact, may well have served as such at one time or another, but then this isn't a musical comedy. There is some music, to be sure, furnished, according to the program, by Ben Bernie's Seville Orchestra (not to be confused with his Hotel Roosevelt Orchestra). It isn't very tuneful but affords an opportunity for some good xylophoning...
...Critics are inclined to take a lenient view of the causes; some say that the demands of academic work and the difficulty of producing thoughtful, readable editorials day after day are responsible, and others that the lack of constructive work is due to the effort to make good reading matter at the expense of common sense and often of dignity...
...difference between the "idol of fandom" and the man who is hissed out of a ring is entirely a matter of personality. Writers have called it "color", that intangible quality that makes a Cobb or a Ruth or a Dempsey. If a man possesses it, college education will iron it out of him. The Bachelor or Arts who hears a symphony of boos when he steps into a ring would hear the anvil chorus if he had never gone to college. It is a gift, no more and no less. And to him that hath shall be given...