Word: prefer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rollin' Along and Kiss Me With Your Eyes (Victor)-Many will prefer this because of the Arden-Ohman pianos and the percussion in Ro-Ro-Rollin...
...lips words he does not know.* Some two dozen lip-readers held a tournament at the conference. But because the lip, like the hand, can be quicker than the eye, none made perfect scores. "Prohibition is a noble experiment" looked like "Prohibition is a local experiment." "Do you prefer long skirts or short ones" looked like "Do you prefer fresh water or salt water." Contest winner was Evelyn A. Parry of Manhattan...
Other excerpts: "I must insist that I prefer to take profits and buy on recessions. ... P. S. Tell the dark-haired damsel to hold on to my portfolio. ... I š am sorry . . . that you are not a prophet of the first grade...
Within the past week, statistics have come from both Princeton and Harvard which show that students prefer to major in Polities and Economics, respectively, at these two institutions. If these subjects are chosen for concentration from purely intellectual motives, and not because it is pleasanter to take a large number of hours in these than in other courses, the obvious inference is that Princeton will produce our politicians, and Harvard our businessmen. Inasmuch as Yale finds English still the most popular subject, she might be expected to produce a merely cultured intelligentsia. That would be division of labor...
...about the Revolution. It is extravagantly unreal, entirely out of the tradition of naturalistic cinema. Audiences who like operetta and audiences in the country who have never had much chance to decide whether they like it or not may find Song of the Flame to their taste. Others may prefer to wait until the songs get on the radio. Best shot: Noah Beery singing "One Little Drink" in a basso billed as "two notes lower than any ever recorded...