Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could afford to live at a hotel, and she thinks your publication so well worth reading, why not contribute less than a dime weekly to those lounge lizards and lobby loiterers cheerfully by giving them her paper, which would perhaps be instrumental in making better men of them, instead of slandering a State, which has given birth to some of the best Americans that ever lived, that is so rich in honorable and valuable American history...
...royal box, no King, no Queen. Instead, Princess Mary smiled earnestly and collectively at the gathering...
...strings of firecrackers on bamboo poles, which met them at Shanghai, and the flower girls who escorted the Queen of Spain to her lesson in U. S. student jazz, were characteristic minutiae of the color and folkways observed by students of history, sociology and kindred subjects, at first hand instead of in books...
They still throw the bull in Mexico, but neither so far nor so much. Instead, the populace prefers to spend its leisure hours at the movies where the sun is not so ponetrating and where opportunities for prolonged siestas are even more numerous. Six times--gloats the statistician--six times as much money is spent annually in Mexico for the moving pictures as for arena exhibitions. And what does this portend? Are the Mexicans losing their sporting blood that they are now content to sit drowsily in darkened room whereas they were wont to eat bananas and throw the skins...
...crime sipping near dear out of glass lily-sups, and munching pretzela to the tune of one thing or another, he could not help letting his imagination transport him some 3000 miles in space and some nine months back in time. For a few moments Symphony Hall was transformed. Instead of the galleries and plaster statues, a canepy of foliage rustled in the breeze over the heads of two wanderers who were seated at a little table. Close beside them were a score of other tables similar in most respects; a few yards off a mountain the water splashed merrily...