Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...descendant of Mohammed and leader of U. S. Bahaism ("There is no saint without a past; there is no sinner without a future"); Editor Josette Lacoste of the U. S. French-language weekly, Amérique ("Only with a baby in arms can one walk safely in Paris"). No matter how many haughty ladies might refuse to curtsy to his wife, the Duke could rest assured that he was daily in the loving thoughts of many a strange individual...
...business' confusion. Heretofore, such pump-priming talk has boomed the market, and even Wall Street admits that sharp curtailing of government largess would toboggan stock prices. Last week's pessimism apparently stemmed from the realization that new deficits may mean new taxes. But this was one matter on which Congress gave signs of having its back...
Famed Astrophysicist Sir James Jeans sounded off on pianists' "touch": "So far as single notes are concerned it does not matter how [a pianist] strikes the key, so long as he strikes it with the requisite degree of force. . . . The tone quality will be the same whether he strikes it with his fingers or even the end of his umbrella...
...author has used the legend. There are variants by Molière, Shadwell, Mozart, Mérimée Dumas père, Byron, Balzac, Shaw. Not overanxious to compete with such a talented gallery, yet fascinated by the violent Don, Sylvia Townsend Warner decided to take the matter up where the others had left off-with Don Juan's damnation. And so she wrote After the Death of Don Juan (Viking...
...matter of fact, if the skis aren't waxed, they are going to catch so much that the skier won't be able to do anything correctly," he said...