Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...much cheap philosophy. Phoebe Foster as the harried heroine hardly fosters interest. She is pretty, but wears dresses that add nothing to her charm and years to her age. One wonders that Lee Baker, who grates his teeth as well as he can in the sinister role, does not prefer Lilyan Tashman, who seems at least as real as her slang...
...economics was an absolute necessity, he said. According to Professor Carver, the following definition of socialism is the only one which will definitely divide the socialist from the non-socialist: "Socialism is the ownership and operation of all means of production by government, public, or community, whichever you prefer to call...
...attempt is to be made to induce Parisiens to eat chilled meat. Once before it was tried without success and experts declared the new experiment is predestined to failure. The fact is the Parisiens prefer snails and frogs...
Even admitting the football point of view, spring football does not materially contribute to a better Varsity team. The college is so small and unusual athletic ability so concentrated that many of the best football men are occupied with other interests in the spring. We prefer to rest our case, however, on the broader argument. Football is overemphasized; intercollegiate athletics are hypertrified; spring football is merely a minor symptom of the larger disease. It is one of those things without which we could so easily...
Lilac, oriental bouquet, jasmine, French bouquet, violet, rose. That is the order in which women prefer perfumes, according to tests made on 200 girls of Barnard and Teachers' College by Professor Albert T. Poffenberger, Columbia psychologist. The results were confirmed by more numerous subjects at the 71st Regiment Armory Perfume Show. With men the order was lilac, French bouquet, jasmine, oriental bouquet, rose, violet. With advancing age, men and women both tend to prefer more pungent perfumes than lilac, though young girls like them too. Slim women and all young men want faint perfumes...