Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Someone has called Beardsley "an inspired grasshopper." It is a poor metaphor. Few grasshoppers prefer candles to the sun. Very thin, very long-handed, long-nosed, always a flower in his buttonhole, he infuriated William Morris by his somewhat ambiguous drawings for an Arthurian poem. Other people liked him better; his drawings in the Yellow Book caused critical thunderstorms. Esthetes strove to imitate in prose and verse the Beardsley gift for wistful evilness. His friends denied that he was obscene; in that denial they took from him his character and his curse. There could be nothing dirtier than certain prints...
...persistence of this attitude, it is not surprising I there is little productive research carried on by young Doctors of Philosophy. Nearly all of them would prefer to I teach, than to spend time in tiresome and painstaking solution of historical problems. And the research itself, tedious and exacting though it is, does not tell the whole story of a scholar's task. There is facing the inquirer the orderly and accurate presentation of his acquired facts. Few men today have the patience or the skill in writing to attempt this expository task. In this decline of capable writers lies...
...available at additional cost. There should be reduced rates for men "signing on" in advance for longer periods: $11 per week and $40 per four-week period are suggested as fair adjustments. Students should be allowed to pay cash or charge their meals on term-bills as they prefer...
Potent Centenarian. One Richard Ferris, potent, indomitable, waved aside his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and his toddling great-great-grand-daughter as they sought to prevent his departure from London last week to celebrate his 100th birthday by riding to hounds. Said he, "I prefer to die in the saddle!" That evening he returned alive, sipped his port...
...order, to eliminate disease, to break the dense wall of illiteracy, and to prepare the many conflicting tribes for unification and ultimate self-government. This program we have not yet completed. In spite of this the Filipino politicians cry for "complete, immediate and absolute independence." They would prefer (so they tell us in their speeches) a government by their own people, no matter how had, to one in which we have any control...