Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I heartily approve of your use of "Chinaman" and "Chinamen." But "Britishmen" (TIME, Aug. 13) is different. I am a Canadian and have no personal interest in the matter; but my wife's brother is one of King George's famous "Coldstream Guards," and I would not like to think of such a fine young fellow as a "Britishman." I realize that "Englishman" is too narrow a term, and "Briton" is as bad as writing "Frenchie" instead of "Frenchman." Still I believe that a better word than "Britishman" can be coined. What is really needed, however...
...sporting. A boy is handed a slip of paper on which a subject is written such as "Capital Punishment."* For five minutes he is permitted to twitch nervously in his seat while his undernourished brain works feverishly to synthesize all that he has read, been told, suspected about the matter. A bell rings. He marches to the platform, plunges into a sentence the end of which is invisible, stops, begins again, stutters, finally gets hold of a word, likes it, takes hold of it, and with a ridiculous but earnest gesture, gallops it into a climax, becomes suddenly convinced...
...Straton's opinion of his "true political wisdom." Gov. Smith was to debate prohibition throughout the campaign, had no desire to take time out on this subject with just one parson, however dry. But Gov. Smith has waited for a chance to get at and dispose of this matter of VICE. Whisperings throughout the country, and especially in the South, were trying and would try to connect him with VICE. The more the ordinary man got to life him, the more the ordinary woman might be alarmed. In some vague way, he was to be the symbol of sexual...
Hopefully and generously contributed were these and many, many another product of the genius of U. S. industry. But no matter how satisfactory any or all of them may prove, Explorer Byrd has announced he will endorse none of them. Nor will he endorse the clothing designed, after months of experiment, for the expedition. U. S. underwear men went into conference at Troy (N. Y.) to evolve the airplane cloth garments for summer wear, the heavy wool underwear for winter...
...soft couch most of the time. She loves them all-bankers, counts, newspaper owners-but, deep down, she is disgusted with men. Then along comes a lean-hipped young diplomat (Nils Asther) and the Lady of the Couch is stricken with love-at-first-sight. "What does it matter?" she cries, "A man-a woman-before them the highway of life." But, alas for the highway, a rejected count threatens to reveal her past and ruin the young diplomat's career. Death comes to the couch...