Word: mattering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After nearly a month had passed and no word on the matter came from the Solicitor's office, DeGuglielmo introduced another order stating "that it is the considered policy of the City Council" that the use of coin-operated machines (except vending machines and juke boxes) be prohibited...
...zest to his collecting, Colonel Carter has had 863 TIME covers autographed by the cover subjects. Before he is through, he is certain he will have a complete set of all past TIME issues. But the autograph collection will be another matter. Some 800 of the subjects of TIME'S covers had died before he began his collection. Of the remaining 120-odd "possibles" still alive, most are what he calls "Reds and royalty," two categories that have not widely responded to his appeals, though he has the signatures of Yugoslavia's Tito and Italian Communist Palmiro Togliatti...
Before the N.A.M., Ike exhorted the nation's business leaders to lend their influence to communicating "the matter of fiscal integrity" to others. "The strongest force in a democracy is an informed public opinion ... I can't conceive of a better and finer occupation, really a vocation, rather than an avocation, for anyone who is employing others and dealing with others ... than to use his influence in making certain that [fiscal problems and the principles of frugality] are understood...
Without a consistently dazzling and imaginative technique, Beardsley's drawings take on an unpleasantly decadent tinge. The super-sophisticated subject matter is not elevated or illuminated by the artist's compassion. Beardsley, one feels, did not really care about most of his work, most notably his slick "fashion ad" drawings for the Yellow Book. He drew the stylish and stylized images well, brilliantly often, but left them lifeless and hollow...
...section "a direct personal affront" to the faculties and student bodies of American colleges. "The Congress has singled out," according to Pusey, "our college people alone as a special group and then said to them by implication, 'We are not sure you are fine loyal Americans. As a matter of fact, we rather think...