Word: preference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been a subscriber of "TIME" since the beginning of "TIME" and I dislike very much to enter the ranks of the disgruntled, for I have no complaint to make, but merely wish to state a preference. Re the coons, if we must have coon let us have Rebecca and ignore the Parisian species. Still, if you do need something with which to fill space, I prefer either one of the coons as a subject to the uninteresting, distorted views of the eminent Baltimore Sun reporter* on our worthy Chief Executive [TIME, June 20]. . . . C. V. LEMEN Wichita Falls...
...willingly concede that you have a large vocabulary and use good English. I like your publication because it tends to improve my English and increase my vocabulary, but I have no desire to increase it with such words as amanuensis. Sensible men would prefer stenographer or secretary I would not be surprised should an early issue of your publication contain a revision of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, using such unusual words as amanuensis instead of the two-syllable words Lincoln used...
...diffidence than zest. A chorus even less frolicsome than the principals was likened by one reviewer to "a daisy chain of serious Smith or Bryn Mawr girls." The proceedings are applauded in genteel style by players in two stage boxes, outfitted in the costumes of 1881. For those who prefer emasculated albeit musical Gilbert & Sullivan to no Gilbert & Sullivan, the production will serve. The plot, as all should know, satirizes Oscar Wildian esthetics, which it quite drove out of business. Precious Poet Bunthorne captivates 20 lovesick maidens but not milkmaid Patience, whose true love is a simpler fellow, Poet Grosvenor...
...Spirit of St. Louis and there are no more rivers to cross; when Coolidge and Rodgers play at Waldron's and an oyster is good for a hit in the ninth, then and then alone, and so forth. There are those, ladies and gentlemen, who prefer the bull fight; there are those who prefer the cock fight; and "Ghost Train" still draws crowds; but, and here may I quote Hamilton Jefferson Detroit Plymouth who said, "If a circus have but a single ring, that ring rings true...
...hard of hearing prefer this adjective phrase to "deaf," which has acquired connotations of scorn and taunt...