Word: preference
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...French, according to L'Eclio de Paris, prefer that such event be staged in the Mediterranean, and if possible, before the Colonial Exposition. The Journal des Debats agrees with this suggestion, but insists that no parity be given the Italians until the war would have been won by the French...
After endless hours of cards and questions and careful computations, Dr. Moffet learned that: The favorite authors of American teachers are the best sellers. Temple Bailey, Gene Stratton Porter and Charles Dickens. Like several million others, they prefer the films to the drama, and musical comedy to opera. They like sacred music, also jazz and love songs. The average teacher is the daughter of a small business man, a skilled workman or a farmer; her average sister is a stenographer, a nurse or a clerk. Her average sources of average pleasure are picnics, amateur plays and basketball games. She goes...
...telephones. Last week, however, F. B. McKinnon, president of the Independent Telephone Association, spoke convincingly for the companies he represents. Questioned by the Senate Commerce Committee as to the opinion of the independent companies on the proposed Communications Committee, he vehemently protested that the members of his association "prefer to remain hitched up with the railroad organizations [I. C. C.] than to be driven into the same corral with the kicking and biting herd that is known as the radio industry...
...Significance. Peggy Joyce's publishers have played their hand well. They have somehow induced her to sign her name to a book which, if not quite so funny as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, has the names and scandal of more real people in it. She is easily the most famous Woman...
...perhaps for the astute Vagabond reader this is all stale news, or perhaps he has broken his glasses and would prefer just to listen. If such is the case, there follows a list of subjects which promise to repay even the trouble of getting up early on Saturday morning...