Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plays as the sum of his knowledge, Edgar Wallace drifted from newsboy to sea-cook and back again. He worked for a milkman, a florist, a printer, a mason; turned up in the Army while still in his 'teens. In South Africa he resigned from the military in favor of newspaper work, and during the Boer War coded many a scoop to his London paper, much to Kitchener's embarrassment and the censor's discomfiture. The war over, Wallace was appointed editor of the Transvaal's largest newspaper, and on the proceeds he played with notorious...
...ruled the state as a political dictator, had tramped into the Legislature at Baton Rouge to issue his orders, had played hob with the State's appointive boards and commissions. For ten months his opponents cringed before him, treasuring their grievances. Last week the gusty wind of popular favor veered 180 degrees and a hurricane of public condemnation swept down upon the young man who styled himself the "Kaiser of Louisiana...
...League, to the 52 states adherent to the World Court, and to the U.S. Senate−assuming, of course, that no previous hitch occurs. Last week in Washington such irreconcilable Anti-Courters as Senator William Edgar Borah re-trumpeted their opposition, but President Hoover was expected to favor and secure ratification...
...favor of having dinners on time? Will you arrive punctually at the hour set? Will you get to dances on time? If you accept a dinner invitation will you really attend...
...more sound statements made by Harvard Club presidents in answer to the query of the Boston Transcript as to whether graduates favor the House Plan or not emphasizes the point that "possibly the older alumni are more in sympathy with the plan than recent graduates." The significance of this remark cannot be overlooked in a consideration of the graduate attitude toward the forthcoming experiment...