Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...footlights made him in the end a singer of jazz for the world that lives at night. George Jessel, a jazz singer from revue and vaudeville, played the part and made his name as a straight actor. But in making the picture Mr. Jessel was passed over in favor of the man whom so many worship as their greatest entertainer, Al Jolson. It is Mr. Jolson's first picture and as such of great import to the history of the current theatre. In no other way but pictures can his genius be preserved; and in this he is favored...
...grounder from Batter Koenig; Catcher Smith dropped a thrown ball from Third Baseman Traynor; the Yankees earned one run, had two more given them and won the game by a 4-3 score. But for the Grantham-Smith lapses, the result might well have been 3-2 in favor of Pittsburgh...
...jacket of "Humanizing Education" is completely plastered with its praises from such authorities as George Santayana, Bertrand Russell "The American Mercury." But somehow I suspect that they are rather in favor of Mr. Schmalhausen's aim than his method. His aim is de-bunking education; his method is almost non-existant. Perhaps the fact that he makes no attempt to stay near his subject is better for the world at large, because not only does Mr. Schmalhausen de-bunk education, but also War, Romanticism, Literary Criticism, Jesus of Nazareth, and conventional morality. The result of these fliers...
...advantages of the cheering section, from a point of vantage notable mainly for its distance from the participants. And the mere fact that "the draw" will be reversed for the Pennsylvania game, and that he can gamble again for seats at the Yale game, with no more assurance of favor at the hands of Dame Fortune, marks the injustice as no less howling...
...posts of the floor. No active trader had Mr. Booth been, with hundreds of clients to represent. Apparently his misconduct had been technical. But the penalty was heavy disgrace. He had vanished from his hotel, leaving no clue, only a note disposing of a nebulous estate in favor of his sister and brother; had written in a letter "in case anything should happen to me through accident or otherwise. . . ." Wall Street veterans shook their heads. It was not the first time a ruined broker had thus prepared...