Word: favors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fooled. "We are finding that women can be fooled as well as men. Suffrage was opposed by the moneyed interests because they thought women would favor humanitarian legislation. That was before the time people realized the power of concerted propaganda. . . . Now we are victims, with men, of the insidious influences of the capitalistic element."? Alice Stone Blackwell, daughter of Lucy Stone but no Lucy Stone Leaguer (to preserve maiden-names...
...writer must confess to a certain prejudice in favor of this issue of the Lampoon due to the fact that careful perusal of its pages has failed to discover any reference to indifferent horsemanship. This violent departure from the iron tradition of American humor speaks volumes for the originality of the paper...
Asked whether he would use statistical material in support of his statements, Reading replied that he did not consider statistics vital. "As a matter of fact, the available figures, while not well compiled, favor my side of the argument. The statistics compiled by the Census Department in Washington are useful, but they include all homicide," Mr. Reading continued. "A child may run in front of your car, which may have the best brakes in the world, and yet you have extinguished a life. That's not murder, yet a case of that sort would be included in the Census Department...
...Veruda has been merely an instrument of the moment, used to entice Miss Perkins, Mr. Sutherland, or both into his gruff old master's clutches. Follow many pages of mystery while Lord Furber, Mr. Sutherland, and certain members of the crew vie for the nimble Miss Perkins' favor; eventually comes to light Lord Furber's motive. It seems that Mr. Sutherland holds an option on Lallers, famed dressmaking establishment; that Lady Furber has had dealings with Lallers in a manner to make her husband acutely covetous of the option; that Mr. Sutherland has been abducted...
...real power is therefore in the hands of the radical farm bloc, who will be in a position to force through drastic legislation, such as farm relief and the curtailment of judicial favor to issue injunctions in labor disputes...