Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Littleton of the Board of Tax Appeals. Mr. Mellon knew which of these three he would prefer; but when, at the end of the week, President Hoover made the appointment, no one of the three was chosen. The Kentucky G. O. P. had proposed, and President Hoover accepted, Robert Hendry Lucas of Louisville, for eight years...
...response to a question regarding the other plays he has appeared in. Mr. Hampden said, "I gave almost 500 performances of 'Hamlet,' 600 of the 'Servant in the House,' and 360 of 'Caponsacchi,' 272 of which were consecutive. In the last analysis I prefer playing Shakespeare to any other writer, other dramatists have not the same terrific force that he has Acting Shakespeare is like bathing in the ocean...
...pride, his dynasty, his country. By his halidom he would have a son if he had to marry and murder a half-dozen wives. Presented with the infant Elizabeth, later to be called great, he bellowed: "But Christ, this to me! To me! A daughter! I would prefer a son blind, deaf, crippled. . . . You make filth...
...theory-ridden," declared Ernest Barker, professor of Political Science at Cambridge University and present lecturer of the Lowell Institute, when interviewed recently. "Italy and Russia, for example, are having industrial systems imposed upon them, a situation which I do not favor. When I regulate my life, I prefer to do it otherwise than by an inflexible economic doctrine stamped upon...
...industry on its feet." Packers of Pink and Chum salmon (about 60% of the total pack) were worried in the spring of 1926. A large run was expected, and they already had 1.500,000 cases left over from the previous year. Moreover, an ignorant tradition led salmon-eaters to prefer Red to Pink. Investigators for the Associated Salmon Packers glumly heard many a housewife declare: "I buy it [cheap pink] only for my cat." Foregathered in solemn conclave, the packers decided to put on a national advertising campaign. They collected $200,000, gave it to advertising men who staged...