Word: favoredly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Some people thought William Allen White spoke out of turn last week. His Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies had, as he often pointed out, merely undertaken the job of crystallizing a popular opinion already in favor of giving Britain all aid short of war. The favorable reaction to the President's destroyer-bases deal was something for which Editor White rightly took much credit. Rightly, last week, the National Association of Accredited Publicity Directors, Inc. made Mr. White the recipient of their annual award for "outstanding service in publicity." Mr. White succumbed to the temptation...
...musical is still the medium where Producer Zanuck is most at home. Although he dropped his sparkling early tongue-in-cheek technique (Thanks a Million) in favor of opulence, he still knows how to keep the good songs ringing clear...
Casey stated that despite the strain of constant bombings, British civilian morale is admirable. The recent activity in the Mediterranean and of the RAF in bombing military objectives in Germany, must both be regarded as "plus points" in favor of Britain and her allies...
Attempting "to stimulate students' initiative, inventiveness, and individual preferences," the course is conducted on the promise that it may well supply the only opportunity the students will ever have to remain "unconcerned with the technical aspects" of the arts in favor of developing individual creative talents...
Such criticism leaves much yet to be said in favor of the production. Robert Keith gives a generally delightful impression of Dickens with all his virtues and not a few of his faults. We are introduced to Dickens the courageous, Dickens the admirable, Dickens the lovable; but we may also catch glimpses of Dickens the proud and vain. Above all we get a clear insight into the struggles of a man whose sympathies and view of life were not those of the dominant forces of his day. And however successful his crusade on behalf of the "Oliver Twists" may seem...