Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Drawled Mme. d'Alvarez pleasantly: "Jazz is my reason for living in New York City. I prefer to live in New York because here I can find the inspiration of good jazz music. New York is jazz incarnate. Its architecture, its business, its life-all sparkle to a syncopated measure. . . . An honest jazz tune is better than a sermon on prohibiting anything. . . . When I die I have only one request to make. I want music at my funeral, but no dirge or mournful laments. Play only one thing and let that number be George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody...
...occurred to me that a census of America's college men as to whether or not Anica Los is right in saying Gentlemen Prefer Blondes would be of great interest to all newspaper readers. Ever since the book first appeared this controversy has been going on, and now that the play has opened, discussion has become more heated. College students should be able to decide the issue, and I thought you would be in a position to put the question to your fellow students...
...figures indicates therefore, that the intelligent reaction to the proposal was rather favorable than unfavorable. With an affirmative vote of 618 there is sufficient support at least to warrant a plan to give candidates for distinction the option of taking the written general examinations in Junior year if they prefer...
...What animals does Mr. Ringling prefer in pictures...
...Administration is strongly opposed to the "equalization fee" idea, describing it as an excise tax on necessities. It likewise does not like the idea of having a government board deal in farm produce. But on the face of first expressions of opinion it seems the dirt farmers prefer the Haugen bill, because it would not put the burden of dealing with the entire surplus on a few cooperatives, which might not be equal to the occasion...