Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...when President Coolidge, taking cognizance of the charges of Senator Walsh, bluntly told the Attorney-General that the opinion never should have been delayed in publication. The President is described as having been nettled when he learned that his own departments had been holding out on him in the matter of this aftermath of the oil scandals, and to have issued orders that action be taken instanter without regard to the election of November...
However, and I am here expressing the opinion of all the students with whom I have spoken regarding the matter, the fault lies wholly with the miserable cheer leading there has been thus far this season...
Patrician London remained studiously unconscious, last week, that a female evangelist from California was preaching what she seemed to call her "Four Square Gospel" in famed Royal Albert Hall. Those of the nobility and gentry and middle classes who reflected upon the matter appeared to feel that the Holy Bible still offers a sufficient choice of Gospels. But of course the London mob, the lower classes, rushed to attend the evangelistic First Night of Aimee Semple McPherson. They 'ad 'card vaguely that Missis Mc-Pherson came from 'Ollywood; and, 10,000 strong, they packed and sweated...
...recovery from such a strain ? that is not old age, but it is the shadow. Physical old age may frequently be seen in individuals of 30 or 40. Before 40 nearly all men and women have begun to feel the signs. Mental old age is a more subtle matter. It comes later than physical old age and the deterioration is slower. (Charles F. Collins, for 35 years head of a New York old people's home...
...name is Ophelia, if anyone wants to know. She is a Great Dane. With this the factual matter available about Ophelia, that can be printed, ends. Saturday's playful exposition of a mood, arranged, it is to be supposed, by one or those who love football, the spectacle, ought likewise to end--if he is at all psycho-receptive,--the appearances of Ophelia. The appearance of a valued member of the Harvard staff putting on the dog in a public place, when it is still a month to his annual act at the Yale rally, is not alone an anachronism...