Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member who had previously been suspended for appearing on a program of the American Labor Party as a representative of AVC, in contraversion of AVC's firm policy of political neutrality. Neither the Marshall Plan (which we support) nor any other political issue was involved. It was strictly a matter of open defiance by these chapters of the national organization, which of course could not be tolerated. Eastman Birkett 3L Chairman, Harvard Chapter...
Captain Trapnell, who passes on all Navy planes, is not much like a moviegoers' idea of a test pilot. He is no daredevil, nor is he "in love with the sky." Like most real-life test pilots, he is middle-aged (46) and matter-of-fact about his profession. He finds all airplanes uncomfortable, and suspects that people were happier riding horses...
...machinery of such solemn decisions grinds slow and small. Some 200 years ago, a monk wrote to Pope Clement XIII begging him to define the bodily Assumption of Mary as "a most certain dogma of faith." Clement passed the matter on to the Holy Office. In 1863, Spain's Queen Elizabeth made the same request. Pius IX, though recognizing the Queen's good intentions, was somewhat annoyed at a temporal sovereign's interference in sacred matters. He replied: "I am not worthy to publish such a dogma. The wishes of Your Majesty, the holy wishes of Your...
...matter how hard the public is to please, or how hard-to-sell the picture, Hollywood knows that it can count on exhibitors. Last week, as if to keep in trim for tougher times ahead, theater managers were pushing movies with all the zeal, noise and logic of oldtime pitchmen hawking snake...
...matter of fact, if all the dark horses, Missouri cronies, Senatorial comrades, and citizens-of-stature-deserving-high-executive-positions were included in the new Truman Cabinet, that body would have to hold its meetings in the waiting-room at Grand Central Station. This might not help governmental efficiency, but it would certainly give wider scope to the purveyors of political chit-chat...