Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Mott examines the founding and passing of the periodicals; the phenomenon of a shifting popular favor; tendencies in circulation, advertising, payment of authors and editors; costs of publication; and the development of class journals...
...music, Menotti dismisses most modernists as bad craftsmen, thinks the salvation of music lies in a return to intelligible musical language. U. S. composers, he thinks, are under an unfair handicap: "You still want foreign names; that's one thing that has been in my favor." About his operatic preoccupation with feminine foibles, 27-year-old Menotti explains: "Women, to fascinate men, must not be too good. I'm celebrating the wickedness of women...
...five of contract's highest authorities to decide the dispute. After an hour-and-a-half session, during which it was established that Mr. McPherran had erred in speaking but Mr. Barnes had no business believing him, the committee voted three-to-two in Mr. McPherran's favor. Exhausted by its emotional ordeal, Mr. McPherran's team was defeated in the final round by a team captained by fat, easygoing, oldtime Expert Harry B. Raffel...
...favor the Council plan because it contains many important features making it possible to institute a system by which the average fellow gets a better chance for exercise...
...seeking 44th Street, opposite a wildly glaring Hot Mikado. For the Hot Mikado's Producer Michael Todd, sore to begin with because the Swing Mikado competed Against him, is now in a towering rage because he pleaded for the chance to take it over, was coldly dished in favor of Marolin...