Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Music, whose 43 adherents prefer it in various stages from "swing" to "symphony," leads al the other hobbies by a considerable margin. Photography with 15 runs fourth. Skiing and ping pong with 22 and 18 carry off second and third places, respectively, while chess and radio tie for fifth position, with 18 followers each...
...works of Balzac, Romain Rolland and Marcel Proust. Martin du Gard, said the New York Herald Tribune loftily, "reconciles at once the fastidious preciosity of Proust and Rolland's passionate evangelism with the traditional body of art." In a year when best sellers included Sorrell and Son, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Beau Geste, Martin du Gard's masterpiece was so thumping a publishing failure that the subsequent volumes were not translated...
...where the spirit begins and the flesh leaves off. Having abandoned a missionary's career when he saw this fallacy, Author Lin now regards any attempt to separate the two as "confusing, unintelligible and untrue." "Happiness for me," he says, "is largely a matter of digestion. ... I would prefer pork to poetry, and would waive a piece of philosophy for a piece of filet...
Only after completing a scholarly dissertation on classical music did Claude consent to jazz. "I prefer a smooth, neatly arranged style," he said. Hot tunes are good to break the monotony, and they make a sweet tune sound bettre but a steady diet of swing is boring...
...hear. This imaginary figure came from a city under 25,000, his father was a professional man, his education includes college training in liberal arts and now he feels the need of more knowledge of economics to do his job properly. Nevertheless, he would again select journalism, would prefer to remain a Washington correspondent, even though his hours are uncertain, his home office is constantly badgering him with queries for which he must scurry around to find answers, his estimate of Congressmen's calibre is not too high, and he must occasionally run errands and lobby for his boss...