Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this reason can the McLaughlins get no money: When the $15,000 decision was rendered against the Clarke company, that firm's counsel appealed. The higher court (Appellate Division) reversed Justice Cropsey's decision, thereby throwing out the verdict in favor of the McLaughlins. The McLaughlins could not start another suit because Justice Cropsey in his decision had absolved the Greiner Contracting Co., Inc., of all blame. Since there were but two possible defendants to the suit?Greiner and Clarke?and both had been freed of blame, no other party could be sued. In its decision the Appellate Division flayed...
...cinema business?Fox and the Warner Brothers having taken a talkie lead. Second, if the talkies become dominant, the U. S. may lose its position in foreign markets because U. S. stars can, at best, speak only one language at a time. Therefore, when Mr. Zukor finally pronounced in favor of the talkie, he issued orders for a curtailment of reckless Hollywood expenditures...
While the voting was in progress, William Randolph Hearst's scarehead newspapers burst one morning upon the street with rabid appeals not to make an Anglomaniac the Bishop of New York. The shock of this insolence caused a revulsion in Dr. Manning's favor, and he was speedily elected to the high office of Cathedral Heights...
Practical. U. S. citizens favor youth, speed. As against the Caronia, the President Roosevelt is younger (15 years), and faster (four hours...
...duel at anagrams or ask-me-another the betting would be in favor of Swope, who takes a fierce joy in games of omniscience. But Renaud might confidently give Swope a half-column handicap in a contest of humor. He edited the college humorous magazine, Chapparal, in his undergraduate days and is reputed no small wit. During an absence of Don Marquis from the Evening Post, Ralph Renaud conducted his funny column and made it just as funny. The most famed Renaud epigram: "It's not the heat, it's ihe stupidity...