Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chance to do that at the Repertory. But last night was different. Under the able coaching of Henry Jewett the acting company has come out of its slump and surprised us all. Odds on Enchanted April, the next production, have gone up to seven to three, favor of Mr. Jewett's squad. The present production is the best I have seen at this theatre since it opened...
...nation and as individuals we have passed another twelve months in the favor of the Almighty. He has smilled upon our fields and they have brought forth plentifully; business has prospered; industries have flourished, and labor has been well employed. While sections of our country have been visited by disaster we have been spared any great national calamity or pestilential visitation. We are blessed among the nations of the earth...
Frank G. Parker of Chicago was clever but not wary. In 1921 he emerged from the Joliet Penitentiary after serving for four years because he had once been the "crown prince" of automobile thieves. He discarded automobiles in favor of airplanes. He became a hero. In 1923 a colony of fishermen were trapped by a blizzard on South Fox Island in Lake Michigan. Aviator Parker flew to their aid, carrying food and clothing. In 1924 he was a guarantor of the Carpentier-Gibbons fight at . Michigan City, Ind. People wondered whence he had acquired his wealth. Last week...
...feelings of Japanese unfriendly to the U. S. The present U. S. Ambassador Charles MacVeagh moreover greatly resembles his very generally popular predecessor, Ambassador Bancroft. The names of both men are identified with culture and position more than politics, characteristics to which Japanese have been quick to react with favor...
...touchdown in the second period after Lawler had recovered Putnam's fumble of one of Slagle's kicks, and later on in the period added a safety when a pass to Coady kicking behind his own goal line went too high. This made the score 9 to 0 in favor of the Orange and Black, and this is the score which will probably be accepted as the correct...