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...dessert, "fresh strawberries in season are preferred above all else" with ice cream sundaes closely following. Pies without a top crust and most gelatin desserts are in disfavor as are New England fish and boiled dinners and Boston baked beans. Probably Bostonians take their meals in the dining halls just to get away from those dishes...
...protecting rural homes and buildings, Mr. McEachron declares a good lightning rod is effective 99 times in 100. In use since Benjamin Franklin's time, lightning rods and the glib agents who sold them were long in disfavor with farmers because so many rod-equipped structures were struck by bolts and burned. But this was found due in almost every case to faulty installation. Nine-tenths of the deaths caused by lightning in the U. S. (some 50 per year) occur in the country. Cities are much safer because big buildings, with steel frames acting as lightning rods...
Fretting because townspeople complained that some of the Cal students are radicals, "The Daily Californian" hastened to explain editorially that the alleged radicals (whose radicalism consisted in saying that farm workers should be paid enough to live on) were looked upon with disfavor by most of the students, and that the campus liberals are simply troublesome and unrecognized black sheep...
...plot concerns the vagaries of a young man who has fallen in love with an efficient deride of the value of marriage. Her acceptance of a fur coat from his uncle puts her in his disfavor and he marries her sister, really a complicated situation, Like the Victorian hero, the sight of his former beloved married to his uncle (all of which comes in due course of events) sends him, not to Africa in quest of big game, but to South America on an engineering job. The death of his wife at home and of his uncle solve the situation...
...subtle workings of that mysterious thing called Romance; and Romance is incompatible with parental approval of the match. Ergo. Mr. Leon Janney, favored by the adenoidal mother and the crustacean father of the big-hipped , must insult, get drunk, and make himself generally obnoxious before he can win their disfavor and the hand of the sought-for female. It all works out. The insufferable suitor Bernie, with his green and Yellow roadster and his blatant familiarities, is foiled in the end, and the baby-faced Tommy gains marriage and all it implies. Unhappy endings are only for tragedies, and this...