Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 50 artists: Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci, $4,500; Violinist Fritz Kreisler, $4,500; Tenor John McCormack, $4,000; Soprano Rosa Ponselle, $3,500; Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff, $3,000. . . . Such lists are misleading. Galli-Curci may ask for $4,500 but she seldom gets it now. Many people prefer to hear Lily Pons, the pretty French coloratura who is a novelty and only a little more than half Galli-Curci's age. Kreisler makes $4,500 on many a concert but he makes it on percentage. He will play for less. Any artist will...
...debateable point, but there is no doubt as to how students react to this question. The mere character of the survey course, even under the best management, would be enough to dissuade earnest students from constituting their four year curriculum entirely of such material. They would vastly prefer to attend a school where specialization was the rule...
...Democratic white men a Manchurian Democracy might seem best, but Japanese love their Emperor, prefer Imperial deeds...
...species of misconduct has been dealt with leniently by both sets of authorities. It is a difficult matter for the police to handle because it is never clear who is primarily responsible. When the police descend, they descend upon the just and the unjust alike. The University authorities would prefer to assume that Harvard undergraduates are adults, and can be frusted to go to Boston and return without the company of nurses or attendants. Harvard undergraduates have, in effect, asked to be so treated. They are supposed in these modern days to dapise that crude "collegiatism" which makes itself blatantly...
When asked what kind of music he liked to write best, Gershwin replied, "I really prefer to write the more serious kind, I think, but it is considerably harder and requires much more time, of course. In this concerto there are only three themes, but in the "Rhapsody in Blue" there are something like 30, quite a few to think up, you must admit...