Word: preference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such silly devices. There are some good points in the magazine, also some excellent pieces of writing in spots, but the trivial and inconsequential are dwelt upon at such great length that they leave a bad taste. I do not have a great deal of time for reading and prefer to devote that time to magazines on the order of World's Work, Golden Book and the National Geographic, in which one receives full value for time spent on them. C. F. CLARK...
...Education, Sonora, last week. Director F. F. Dworak declared that these cannibals, the Seris Indians, have thus far made away with "most of the investigators" who have visited their isle. "The Seris," he continued, "are a people of enormous stature with particularly long legs. They go about unclothed, and prefer their meat or fish either raw or in a partially decomposed condition. We shall attempt to educate the Seris at an early date...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes-Adventures in gold-digging, as previously set forth in a book...
Married. Ralph Barton, 35, artist, caricaturist; to Germaine Taillefere, 34, French composer; in "a small Connecticut town," following three weeks' acquaintance. This was his fourth marriage. He met his wife at an Alfred Knopf soiree; courted her in French. Anita Loos, whose Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Mr. Barton illustrated, was a witness at the marriage...
WITH the overshoe era upon us and snow upon the overshoe era, fires crackle in grates all too cognizant of Dickensian tradition in their inconstancy of warmth and books often encumber the knees of gentle souls who prefer their own lamp light to the colder luminaries of the winter heavens. No better book for such a purpose, no more delightful, distinguished, and never dull--to be precise, let's suggest that David McCord is an excellent essayist in the Hazlitt manner with a touch of Benchley at his best...