Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...place from the Straits Settlements to provincial England, in mood from musical revue mirth to suicidal despair. Any couple who wished to see the whole cycle in orchestra seats would have to spend $26.40 at box-office prices. Of the nine shows," the couple would probably prefer: Hands Across the Sea, in which a charming but light-headed Mayfair hostess invites some Colonial acquaintances to an impromptu cocktail party, then forgets who they...
Usually printed hopefully on the gum-wrappers is the admonition to "Use this wrapper to dispose of gum," but such is the artistic nature of the chewers that they prefer to dispose of the sticky masses in the nude...
...freshmen and, would offer these men a definite means of choosing their future residence with some degree of surety and logic. As it is at present, the freshmen know practically nothing about the various houses. They are seldom able to inspect more than one or two, and often prefer to make their choice on the basis of contacts with friends rather than with regard to tutorial facilities or curricular advantages. In view of this haphazard and unfortunate mode of selection, the formulation of house personalities would seem the most direct solution...
...Jacobs), 21, his radio protégée and fourth bride; in Yuma, Ariz. Theirs was a hectic 20-month romance featured by a much-publicized cross-country chase with Actor Barrymore in the lead. Protégée Barrie last August announced she "would infinitely prefer to terminate our blessed relationship," but retained the 8½-carat diamond ring he had given her. Said he: "I'm so happy you wouldn't be able to print...
...come to more mundane affairs: the students here prefer Roosevelt. But since Oxford, they say, is a place for lost causes, that is not hard to understand...