Word: favor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposite pole of attraction, to which an equal number of extremists are inexorably drawn each year, is the outside activity. Excepting only athletics, outside activities have been enjoying a steady decline in health at Harvard during the past two years. Favor has turned to restricted outside activity, concentrated on one or at most two lines of endeavor. The activities themselves have benefited by a purge of triflers, and in managership competitions of the socially ambitions. The belief has gained strength that the by-products of study, mysterious as they are in origin, are worth more than the uncertain experience...
...because in different cities different stands are needed to please different groups of readers. Mr. Hearst used to be a Democrat. But ever since he was publicly tongue-lashed by Alfred Emanuel Smith in their celebrated quarrel of 1919, et seq., the G. O. P. has grown in Hearst favor. Before the nominating conventions this year, the Hearst press boomed Secretary Mellon for President and Prosperity. When Mayor Walker of New York City visited the Hearst ranch after the Democratic convention, people said he went to make overtures; to persuade Mr. Hearst, if not actually to support Nominee Smith...
...close of each of her lectures she added a quiet, candid little speech, saying that her son has been a good president during his two four-year terms, and that she believes the Austrian statute against third terms ought to be waived by Parliament in his favor...
When tidings of insubordination came to King Amanullah, he acted with wily moderation. In the King's name it was shortly proclaimed that only those who especially desired the favor of His Majesty need shave. When Parliament assembled most chins were nude...
...great racqueteers have alienated public favor when it might have done them the most good. One was Vincent Richards, onetime junior singles champion, onetime Davis Cup defender, whose attempt to justify his turning professional brought forth lame excuses, and turned away many who otherwise might have given him their support. The other was William Tatem Tilden II, who last week was found guilty of breaking the player-writer rule of the U. S. L. T. A. and punished by indefinite banishment from amateur tennis...