Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...harmless, but promoted efficiency and "good morals." It was Senator McKinley, lame duck from Illinois, who finally prevailed upon the higher officers of the Navy to believe these arguments. At least one of Senator McKinley's constituents (William Wrigley Jr. of Chicago) grinned broadly. He has always been in favor of good morals in the Navy...
Such rigid discipline of sentences produced by tricky parentheses and binding clauses has not met with favor in a liberal world. Rightly enough, the leaders of college composition have rejected the goose-step construction for the more informal expressions of thought. There seems little danger of a formal invasion of college literature, or conversation...
...faith, even the meanest, in connection with "pussyfoot" and "detour" is to lower the esteem for that leader, held by the most fervent, provided the most fervent has retained his sense of the eternal fitness of things. This convention is about to make a compromise so that those who favor complete immersion and those who do not can continue in the same church without words of little wisdom and much bitterness. In the role of advocate for moderation and compromise Dr. Brougher has, in his category at least, a decent part to play. But when he uses such words...
...abides a red substance which all the faithful recognize as the congealed blood of St. Januarius. Twice a year the clotted mass dissolves-usually in May and September. Last week Crown Prince Humbert appeared in Naples for a day. The blood dissolved. Newspapers printed extras. The populace saw heavenly favor for the Prince...
...large side interest in botany, for which it has a second international reputation. And upon its central field it has driven through to fundamental strata. It has pondered the ineluctable problem of Law, the body of popular custom opposed to Law, the rational phenomenon. It has resolved in favor of the latter conception - "Law is a practical matter" - and it seeks to root out the arbitrary, the illogical, the instinctive. It realizes that "the great source of friction is human wilfulness, and the great cause of waste is insecurity," but it believes that, within the limits of intellection...