Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tobey's constant sniffing in the bushes for the Big Bad Roosevelt does not endear him to the Senate, which is a body of men who hate to keep jumping up all the time, and who prefer to take even their own wolf-halloos with plenty of salt, and maybe just a dash of bitters. Last week rancorous, cantankerous Mr. Tobey was out front again for his first real headlines since his passion for picayune causes led him to denounce the U.S. Census last year as regimentation. Three weeks ago his sensitive neb caught the scent of convoys. Quick...
...tall little man. A conversation with Sorokin requires an effort to keep up with his wit, and when he gets serious, an effort to grasp what he is talking about. For him, the best art, literature, and music was produced before the nineteenth century. Enough of a cosmopolite to prefer Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart to Tchaikovsky and Rimsky Korsakov, smoke English instead of Russian cigarettes, keep cases of French wine in his cellar instead of scotch or vodka, and obtain American citizenship in 1930, he is nevertheless simple and quiet in taste, abhorring social life and all that it entails...
...Britisher I have often had to undergo a deflation of inherited ego when reading in TIME about things we rather prefer not to know about, but I have to admit that the underlying friendliness of your criticisms of our failures and jibes at our weaknesses have rendered them instructive rather than hurtful...
...fashioned stuff. It's corny, nobody plays that way any more. Give me the Andrews Sisters!" Well, there's a lot of truth that. Very few bands play the way Jimmy McPartland plays today, and more's the pity. Certainly it's an old-fashioned style; and if you prefer the stereotyped, lifeless riff tunes of Glenn Miller, Les Brown, and Artie Shaw, that's your prerogative. Me, I'll take the old stuff, and if you're on my side, you'll do well to go down to Nick's, for there you'll find the best living example...
Beetle-browed Laborite Josiah Wedgwood, direct descendant of the famed potter, politely observed that Sunday theaters were unnecessary since soldiers and their girls "would infinitely prefer the dusk and sentiment of the cinema, where they could hold each other's hands...