Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Happy Birthday is sentimental rubbish. Not only does the author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes convince nobody that gentlemen prefer librarians, but she has frantically tossed into the pot almost everything except good dialogue. That the pot ever boils is due to the presence and prestige of Helen Hayes...
...office, the debate about Traubel and Flagstad is irrelevant: Wagner continues to sell out. There are still some who prefer Flagstad's glacial perfection to Traubel's warmer but more uneven performances. Traubel's singing, being more emotional, generally improves as the evening goes on; she is at her best in the great third act of Tristan...
...earlier years photographers had been uniformly kind and thoughtful, never snapping him in an awkward position. . . . Toward the last, however, they shot him from every angle and seemed to prefer the pictures that caught him with his mouth open or stooped forward...
Although breakfast and dinner is served to Brunswick residents in a paneled basement dining room, taking meals at the hotel is not compulsory, and some couples prefer to eat on the way to and from the university. Efforts are made, however, to provide varied dinners and breakfasts, similar to those served at Harvard Houses, for $17.50 per week per couple. The Draytons and the Raymond W. Ralstons (he, a graduate student in Physics) feel "portions could be larger" at the hotel dining hall, while Harry Eckstein '46 (a government concentrator) and his wife, Vivian, say the food at the hotel...
Admittedly Soldiers Field and the Business School are a long way from the Yard, yet many commuters would prefer a routine 10-minute walk to the current matutinal scramble for places to park nearer their classes. Students living in the Houses or the Yard, on the other hand, should be particularly eager for a legal and dependable parking lot even at some distance, since they rely on their cars less for daily than for weekend travel. Whether run by the University or by a student group, an essential prerequisite for any such space is 24-hours-a-day supervision...