Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vote for Warburton" read the dodgers which a member of the opposition found himself handing out after converse with a dazzling debutante. Matrons asked their servants to vote Warburton. Anita ("Prefer Blondes") Loos chased her busband (Onetime-Actor John Emerson) to the polls to do likewise. Arthur Hammerstein was fetched from the links by his wife, who used to be Dorothy Dalton. Producer Florenz Ziegfeld glorified the scene at the Town Hall. Many a tradesman advertised his shop by voting as Wealth suggested. Result: Warburton, 482; other candidates...
Ensued, last week, furious dissensions among Indian politicians as to whether this offer should be accepted. Significant loomed a recent statement by the great Indian barrister Pundit Molital Nehru, executive leader of the Swaraj (NonCooperation Party). Wrote he: "I should prefer forced slavery to being a party to forging the chains to bind me. In this Commission there is nothing but a machine to forge the chains...
...Newton Theological Institution as to whether they meant Master of Sacred Theology or Master of Systematic Theology. I just looked up the diploma and find that it says Sacrae Theologiae Magister, but I wonder why the "sacrae." Isn't all theology sacred, or supposed to be? I vastly prefer your interpretation of the mystic initials as Master of Scientific Theology. Now if you will only change my useless B. D. (Bachelor of Divinity) to mean Darwin Booster, in recognition of my pro-evolution activities, my debt will be double...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. So bland and calm was the satire of Author Anita Loos' famed opus, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, that, when translated into cinematic dialect, it seemed probable that only a faint echo of its hilarity would remain. Such is not the case. Ruth Taylor as the very arch criminal, Lorelei Lee, is so coy, and cogently appealing that it becomes easy to believe in her conquest first of the vulgar but munificent Mr. Eisman, then of the wan but even more wealthy Henry Spoffard. Dorothy Shaw, the hard-boiled bantam brunette who assists the capricious avarice of Lorelei...
First the book, then the play, and now the movie has emphasized the fact that "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" until the public is almost convinced. However, there is not much doubt but what the film at the Metropolitan this week, despite the charms of Ruth Taylor, is less satisfactory than its successors...