Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Junior Leaguers prefer double beds, and like to eat their breakfasts in them. Last week hostesses in Seattle, Wash., where 330 Junior Leaguers gathered for their annual conference, learned these and other means of making Junior Leaguers happy...
Many tourist camps spring up around filling stations, are built by home labor. Of the "better variety" camp, the American Automobile Association recognizes only 9,600, approves of no more than 3,200 as "first-rate tourist stops." These Ritzes of the far-flung industry prefer the name motor court to tourist camp (auxiliary name: motel), cater only to bona fide tourists. Typical of them is Pines Camp Cottages and Trailer Court in the outskirts of Valdosta, Ga., on U. S. Highway No. 41, no miles north of Jacksonville. Started 15 years ago by a former carnival showman and amusement...
...again faced the prospect of losing her strategic base Salonika, which lies just 100 miles from the Albanian border. Her premier and dictator, John Metaxas, who was deported by the Allies in 1917 as a German political agent, is an admirer of Hitler. His people, grown poorer under totalitarianism, prefer the Allies, particularly France. Given a chance to choose her side, Greece would probably have a revolution deciding. But her opinion would very likely not be asked...
...Thee. At 16 weeks he recognizes his mother's face; at 40 weeks he likes to have people around ("even when he waves bye-bye he may prefer to have them remain"); at one he repeats performances that get a laugh; at 18 months he strikes the air rather than an intruder ("when he becomes socially more mature he will slap the person"); at two he distinguishes between "mine" and "yours," pouts, dawdles; at three he "negotiates reciprocal trade agreements," obediently runs errands; at four he is bossy, tells little lies, "likes to go to the bathroom when others...
Bigger moment in Joan's life was her marriage last year to Brian Aherne. The Ahernes are one of Hollywood's happiest married couples. Eschewing Hollywood hotspots, they prefer at homes with the quieter younger set. With Jane Bryan, Margaret Lindsay, Beverly Roberts, Lew Ayres, John Arledge and others, they play games, eat cheese and crackers, listen to Joan's puns, which come every few minutes. Typical pun was struck off while Katharine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic were discussing what fun Critic George Jean Nathan has tearing them apart. Quipped Joan: "South of the Nathan and Dixon...