Word: favorableness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...least discussed at the present Parley. The U. S. Chief Delegate, Hugh Simpson Gibson, resisted the British pressure, maintaining that the Parley had been called to extend the 5-5-3 ratio to smaller ships, and not to modify it in any way. Suddenly the Japanese, previously supposed to favor the U. S. position, switched over to support British Chief Delegate the Rt. Hon. William Clive Bridgeman...
...This does not mean that favor armed intervention, which I am thoroughly convinced is most impractical, but I believe that we must leave our warships and marines in China for a long time...
...gave the delicious and precious sensation one gets from enriching oneself without effort of understanding and without study, and of witnessing a spectacle without paying. His dilettanteism, his diversity of information and his knowledge were other great sources of his favor...
...brought tourists. The tourists, then as always, spent money. As for the Turks, they had little use for Greek relics, other than as objects upon which to inflict spiteful blows when human victims were wanting. In 1816, a select committee of the House of Commons reported to Parliament in favor of formal purchase of the "Elgin marbles" at a price of ?36,000. The proposal was accepted. Lord Elgin formally transferred the treasures, thus making Great Britain the grander for the glories of Greece...
...employer, Pennington Fish. To land him she toys with the firm's general manager, Benjamin Franklin Whipple, a fop, declaring as she proceeds that she "will catch the rich Mr. Fish by using Whipple as the worm." In due time, however, all this diabolism is put aside in favor of wholesome matrimony with a sober leading man, thus proving yet again that cinema is sound at the core, even though occasionally amusing...