Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only a poor Presbyterian pastor and none too familiar with Oliver W. Gilpin's Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Frankly I do agree with him that I too prefer to have the President "blessed" rather than merely given "wisdom." We Presbyterians ask that God may "look (upon him) with favor . . . imbue (him) with the spirit of wisdom, goodness, and truth...
...amusing thing about moving pictures," wrote voluble William Saroyan, "is the enormous number of nonentities who work together to make something any normal half-wit would prefer not to make in the first place...
...question Shirer's book poses: Can what is left of civilization save itself? For it is the nature of men in crises that they usually prefer what is strong and effective, no matter how brutal, to what is weak and ineffectual, no matter how exalted...
...would prefer, however, to reach success via the stage. Her experience behind the footlights started in 1937 when she played summer stock in Skowhegan, Maine; this was her first and only visit to New England, and she enjoyed it very much. Since then she has toured with "You Can't Take It With You" and "The Man Who Came to Dinner" and filled in the rest of her time with two "quick flops" on Broadway, which, as she very justly observes, "weren't my fault, of course...
...Those of us who may prefer prehistoric affinity to swine are asked to cut their own throats from ear to ear. Those of us ... who have a predilection for consanguinity with sheep are asked to make only a small slit in our throats...