Word: preference
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reason why I have not subscribed is because "famed," "Manhattan" and the aggravatingly meaningless captions in TIME irritated to the point of threatening non-sanity once. If you'll stop saying "famed" in every death notice and "Manhattan" for New York. I'll re-subscribe.Otherwise, I prefer mosquitoes are being less irritative...
...undermining the independence of France, and so deliberately unjust where he refers to waiting for America to enter the War, and where he criticizes the United States for making a separate treaty of peace with Germany, and yet so pathetic in manifest love of his country, that I prefer not to comment at length...
Nutt: "I am not particular in that respect. I think I should prefer marrying a good, green country girl to anybody else...
...Roberts, as a representative of the press, may I ask which part did you personally prefer in The Ten Commandments? I think . . ." The grey-mustachioed gentleman removed from his mouth a long, black stogy, glared at his inquisitor. "Who," said he, "do you think I am?" "Why, Theodore Roberts, the movie actor," gasped the reporter. "You are mistaken, sir! My name is Cummins." Last week great grandfather Albert Baird Cummins, Senator from Iowa, for nearly two decades one of the greatest influences in the governance of the U. S. was stricken with heart disease, died suddenly. Theodore Roberts, merely...
...hundred to one in favor of men was the result of a straw vote taken in New York as well as other communities to ascertain whether men or women were more desirable as radio broadcasting announcers. One potent reason, according to many ladies' ballots, was that women prefer on weary mornings, to hear men's voices through their loud speakers. Women's voices also have too much personality, some ladies complained. Men did not object to this. They said women could not announce baseball scores and describe prize fights accurately. The real reason: men's voices...