Word: rather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Women stress that they would rather have a dram of a good perfume than a gallon of not-so-good brands. This general rule holds true except for cologne, which a lot of women like...
...townspeople are quite familiar. It is, oddly enough, in the dances of Nora Kaye that the interest lags and apparently Miss De Mille has nothing much to say, except that the murderess was a lonely, rejected girl. It is a tribute to Nora Kaye's dramatic abilities rather than her recognized dancing talents, that "Fall River Legend" is saved from the lugubrious. Her dancing with the image of her mother (Diana Adams) is an effective bit, however. The ballet suffers from being too long for its content, and from the Morton Gould music...
...definition, then, the sport is bound to get rather fierce at times. Elbows are thrown with reasonably gay abandon and spills are frequent. But there wasn't a genuine body check all evening the night I went (this is surprising in a game like this) and the girls were more violent than the men. State Representative William A. Glynn (D--Boston) must have come away with the same opinion, because he filed a bill the other day seeking to bar women from wrestling matches and roller derbies, claiming these events are too rough for feminine participants. The girls...
Watson favored the Council's revisions which "place the responsibility (for proper conduct) with the organizations, rather than with the Deans' office." He then said that the administrators want to step into the affairs of organizations only when discredit to the College is likely...
...secret of the fact that he prefers his native Rhineland to the raw, "uncivilized" Prussians; once he cracked to a Berlin friend: "Why do you go on living in a town where the monkeys still swing from the trees?" With his imperious eyes, his thin, determined lips, and his rather high, monotonous voice, Adenauer is not a popular leader, nor does he want to be. He never shouts, never tries for dramatic effects; in his political followers he inspires respect, but rarely deep personal devotion. Yet Konrad Adenauer brings to his task an unshakable confidence and a profound faith...