Word: preference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would much prefer lunching among the students in Cambridge to going to stuffy Boston parties. I'm not ancient, and I hate being regarded as a venerable member of the cast of 'Strange Interlude', complained Anders, who plays the 'role of Darrell', the doctor, in O'Neill's work...
...cheering was not unanimous. For also in the city was Mme. Sayba Garzouzi, Egypt's only woman lawyer, now studying jurisprudence in the U. S. A big woman, born 31 years ago in Syria, she has the lavish figure and smooth skin which discriminating Egyptians are known to prefer. Her jet hair matches her darting eyes; her dimples make her laughter an asset of which any lawyer might well be proud. Self-taught in the four legal codes of Egypt ,† she earns some $25,000 a year. What Mme. Garzouzi said last week she said in perfect English...
...course everyone has his own tastes; some like jazz, others prefer classical music. But the majority of people today, in my opinion, are jazz mad," she said in response to a question...
Some conclusions of her long, full life (she is now 67) include: "I prefer their [moderns'] frankness to the old hypocrisy. . . . New York did not impress me. . . . [Lily Langtry was] the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. . . . I cannot pretend to be a judge of my own beauty . . . . When 'they' write my obituary notice, it should be the record of a woman who feverishly designed many things for the betterment of human lives. . . . I regret the passing of the horse...
...took place last week, between John Carroll University and Ohio State. Ralph Vince, Carroll Coach, said his halfback, Ted Rosequist, had been lured to Ohio State by one Hal Ells, Ohio State senior, with offers of free tuition, free board, a spare-time job. When asked whether he would "prefer charges" against Ohio State before officials of the Big Ten, Coach Vince replied, "We haven't thought of that yet. We only want to get Rosequist back." Ohio State alumni also heard themselves abused from Heidelberg (Ohio) University for trying to interview Merle Hutson, all-Ohio halfback. Ohio State...