Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the dazzling candor of exalted birth he has said, "I prefer brawn to brains." He honestly thinks brainy people queer, commands ten languages, likes dancing, tennis, shooting, prizefights, the circus, slapstick at the Palladium and ginger ale with his meals. Untroubled by minor inconsistencies, he is a Mason, Greek Orthodox and divorced-all in good standing. Until last week he has been rather careful with his fortune of $100,000. Then at one clip Kingmaker Kondylis sent him $200,000 in advance expense money for his triumphal return to Athens, and at once there was trouble. Seemingly the Greek...
...peculiarity of the Central Society for Clinical Research among medical organizers is that members prefer to let young doctors do the talking rather than to hear old doctors burble about diseases which originally earned them their reputation. Only if young clinicians lack topics do older clinicians step forward. Thus, when this medical society met in Chicago last week, young doctors were stimulated to report on the following matters...
...Rockefeller: Then it really depends which you prefer-to die early or live for cancer...
...bluntly, the Exchange is concerned with inflation. . . . The same enlightened self-interest which impels a corporation executive to prefer a steady and orderly process of trade to alternating periods of dizzy profits and crimson deficits dictates to the Exchange that its true welfare is to be found in the avoidance both of towering 'tops' and drastically depressed 'bottoms...
These companion anthologies from the Oxford University Press are prefaced by their editors thus: ". . . We have treated ourselves to many old friends and private prejudices. And this is as it should be. An anthologist, however austere he may prefer to be, however much under the shadow of the classroom, is unlucky if, at the end of his labors, he cannot say, A poor unfavored thing, sir, but mine own." Heaven may forgive his indecision and the falterings of his taste provided he has kept the ardor of his heart...