Word: preference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finer art than the novel, finer than the stage, finer far than the opera." He stayed with Charlie Chaplin, earnestly studied production methods, wrote abbreviated scenarios which he calls "treatments." Having declared himself "immune to blondes," he was taken in hand by two riotous brunettes, Writer Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, became the season's socialion. Called upon for a speech, he dodged: "Hollywood leaves me speechless," sat down. Later he developed a pat speech praising technical develop ments in U. S. cinema. Up to last week Author Wells firmly preserved the appearance...
...attempted an even more difficult reconciliation: exile and patriotism, missions and motherhood. Author Buck wrote this book about a missionary's wife as if it were a novel, but readers soon guessed she was telling the thinly disguised story of her mother's life. Few readers will prefer The Exile to Pearl Buck's better books, but most onetime children will doff their hats before this votive offering to a mother's memory...
...save what they could. It appeared certain that North China would not obey Nanking's order to ship all silver stocks to the Capital, because 1) Japan would not permit her prospective new puppet state to be drained of silver, and 2) North Chinese owners of silver prefer to keep it in North China, no matter who governs the area...
...Freshmen prefer the Reader's Digest, while Ballyhoo ranks high with them. Time and the New Yorker rank first and second among those magazines delivered by mail...
Whatever their opinions about Fascism in America, Harvard students are shown by Coop sales to prefer "It Can't Happen Here" to other new flexion releases...