Word: favours
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...campaign, now really in its inception, lies not so much in the personalities involved as in the threatened party disintegration. The activity of the candidates is at present in quite in verse proportion to the publicity they are receiving. The leaders, Smith, Hoover, and Dawes, although supported by popular favour and influential backing, have authorized no movement, and are still quietly at work. Yesterday, however. Ex-Governor Lowden of Illinois announced his intention of carrying the wheat belt in the interests of farm relief. Governor Ritchie's speech making tours have carried him from Maryland. Senators Reed and Curtis have...
...Public sentiment inclines not to favour capital punishment but I have done things highly unpopular with the public before, and I think that is one reason for my appointment as District Attorney," Reading continued...
...constitute the dramatic action, with a great deal of energy. In fact, she is some-times so eager that she gets ahead of the play and on one occasion is insulted before the words are uttered. Her breathlessness ruins many of her effects, but her vitality should win the favour of everyone. Mr. Roberts plays the absurdly romantic husband and self-centered statue of respectability even more ably. His part, however, is much simpler; he undergoes no upheaval and merely gets angry and then weakly desperate. Mr. Sircom, as the revengeful person who starts all the trouble, is impossible. Miss...
...clearly remember reading in TIME of about two months back, an editorial comment which spoke scornfully of "fancy spellings"; the examples you gave were, "favour, catalogue...
...mistake. TIME, June 6, gave as examples : catalogue, shoppe, favour...