Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that a group of young men in college, led by an extremely able and devoted man, a member of the music department, who prefer to sing the best music and who demonstrate year by year their capacity to sing it well, who are invited to visit a foreign country and are received everywhere with acclaim, who have raised the standard of college music, whose repertoire edited by the leader has been published and sold all over the United States and even in England--why at this juncture, because the club insists on maintaining its standard, should any Harvard graduates anywhere...
...Cadman's who is now making Brooklyn the Delphi of America--the best answer is silence, since this is not a question and answer column nor is it inspired by the deft delightfulness of syndication. But I have lost "The Polyglots". It may be too much like "Men Prefer Blondes" to appeal to those who say that be tripe fish or few! the "New Yorker" is tripe, but I insist that it is worth reading, especially at mid-years when life is not half so gay and careless as the last lectures of most Perfervid Professors might lead...
...call our souls our own; no, nor even to entertain the belief that we have souls." This is the conclusion to which Mr. Farrar of The Bookman comes at the end of an editorial in the current issue. Why is it, Mr. Farrar wonders, than the people of America prefer to get their opinions ready-made instead of making them for themselves...
...asked Mary Pickford how she felt about it and she said, 'You see, Laurette, I'm so little and our house is so big that I prefer to be called Mrs. Fairbanks at home. It makes me feel more important when I have to speak to the butler...
...experience in motion pictures. I found that while the picture was being taken the work was far more trying than my work on the legitimate stage, but it doesn't last so long and when the picture is 'shot', the actor's work is done. On the whole I prefer the stage...