Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made her stage debut in the chorus of Hitchy Koo, and has since taken its verbal last syllable for a motto. Often, she coos the most extravagant slang that can be found for her tissue-paper tongue to enwrap. She has done this in Six Cylinder Love, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Love Nest...
...names of ten leading candidates, five Republicans and five Democrats, will appear on the ballots in the poll. Voters will, however, be free to record any other choice which they prefer. The Republican candidates are: Charles Curtis, of Kansas; Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois; Herbert Hoover, of California; Frank O. Lowden, of Illinois; Frank B. Willis of Ohio. The Democrats include: A. Victor Donahey, of Ohio; James A. Reed, of Missouri; Albert C. Ritchie, of Maryland; Alfred E. Smith, of New York; Thomas J. Walsh, of Montana...
...Commons, Mr. Lloyd George spoke platitudes, but later he referred cockily to Prime Minister Asquith, under whom Mr. Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer when the War began. Said he: "On a solemn occasion like this I prefer to recall the days of our pleasant and, I think it would be admitted, fruitful association, when we were working together for great causes...
...young salesman and his sweetie who admires him for being both opulent and deceitful. Ethics are somewhat mixed, the principals in an excellent poker sequence shifting cards until Dix acquires four of a kind, raking in thereby $4,000. Director Malcolm St. Clair, smart maker of the recent Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, was more interested in scenery than story...
...52nd Annual Dog Show of the Westminster Kennel Club was in progress, his sensitive heart must have trembled with the terror that afflicts a small boy when he is taken, for the first time, to school. Unlike poodles or pomeranians, basset hounds are not pleased by admiring stares; they prefer running in the fields and smelling footprints in the grass. What would have been the small basset hound's reaction had the greatest U. S. dog show been carefully described to him, had some crass soothsayer delineated for his amazement an event like many in which he will, there...