Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Viscount Astor, husband of famed Nancy Astor, "first woman M. P." said recently: "A great many peers seem to regard the House of Lords as a male sanctuary or a golf club with membership restricted to retired Colonels. . . . They prefer to overlook that it is an assembly making laws for 40,000,000 people of whom half are women. . . . The House of Lords is the only public body which has not recognized that women have rights...
Modernist noses are elevated at any mention of Raphael Sanzio. It is fashionable, in some circles, to prefer the austerities and twisted imperfections of painters who, as they say, "knew less and hence could feel more," the pre-Raphael primitives. But the "modernists" of today are the conservatives of tomorrow. Painter Raphael's fame has never been any more gravely beclouded than was his princely young life, which, beginning at the ducal court of Urbino where his painter-father enjoyed generous patronage, was strewn with the gold of rulers and the blandishments of their women, in Perugia, Florence, Rome...
...edification of yourself and the readers of TIME I respectfully refer you to Guy de Maupassant's short story "Mademoiselle Fifi," wherein you may learn of the characteristic difference between Jewish and non-Jewish filles de joie. Which may also explain why Princes of Royal Nordic descent prefer Jewesses...
Though Sun deserved some sympathy he is after all only a rather superior type of bandit and can flee abroad to live on his still considerable wealth should he prefer to quit the Chinese game of war and intrigue...
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow one may expect the breathless query--did you see Chaplin plain? A lady harpist, who has also the distinction of being married to the man who illustrated "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," Koussevitsky, and Charles Spencer Chaplin, have united to form the complete glorification of Sanders Theatre...