Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Special Delivery" Marsters, seems to have hit his regular stride again this year. He can run, kick, and pass with the country's best. His hurdling experience has done him much good as a ball carrier and no team is safe when he's on the field. No matter where he has the ball, there is always the feeling that he may romp for a touchdown on the next play. Hewitt is one of the best looking backs Columbia has sent on the field since the halcyon days of Morley and Weekes. He, too, is a marvelous running back...
...judge is sufficient to put any book on the banned list, which now contains 759 items. A government customs official, after looking through Rousseau's "Confessions," admitted that he saw nothing bad in them, but was forced, nevertheless, to refuse admittance for the book. He said that no matter what he might think, he could not do anything about letting the book into the country. Another unusual case is that in which a four hundred year old edition of the "Decameron" of Boccaccio was not allowed to come...
...English sculptor to depict me seated among my vegetables and holding a prize cabbage in one hand (left) and a giant carrot in the other (right). "Your obedient servant, Roy Mukerji Das." The startled Markets Committee, unable to think of a valid objection, approved, but referred the entire matter to the Calcutta Municipal authorities...
Candle-Light. The chronicles of taste in the modern theatre contain the names of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Gertrude Lawrence and Leslie Howard on every page. And since taste succeeds even where substance is lacking, this English triune is able to make even such vacuous foolery as Candle-Light a matter for winks and nudges. Mr. Wodehouse translated it from the German of Siegfried Geyer, embellished it with his own impish slang and metaphor. Miss Lawrence plays the part of a cuddlesome lady with a crinkly nose who accepts a blind date over the telephone and presently finds herself received...
...testimonial idea and soon she became the most famed of testimonial-signers, signing for such products as Lucky Strikes, Ponds Cold Cream. The advertising advertised her as well as the products so that in 1927 she was able to sell Liberty a story called "What's the Matter with American Men?" which lauded foreign bachelors. Her career also includes going to night clubs, attending Broadway openings, working for Saks Fifth Avenue, Manhattan smartmart and such odd jobs as chaperoning Aviatrix Ruth Elder, to whom she introduced her curious and well-bred friends. Sad though her story might...