Word: preference
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the unusually well-informed London Correspondent Augur* insisted that at Geneva last week Sir Samuel Hoare told Premier Laval that "the British Government was ready to admit that the [Anglo-German] naval pact, or rather the method of its conclusion, had been regrettable and would prefer that it had not happened." This extraordinary statement, though entirely undercut in British fashion by its qualifying clause, seemed to mark the first admission by His Majesty's Government that in countersigning Adolf Hitler they may have historically blundered. The air having been cleared by this revelation, the British and French Governments...
Last week Diplomat Martin, having as a child seen British troops invade Ethiopia, ruffled the Nile Club by observing with asperity: "If worst comes to worst, Ethiopia would much prefer being under the just and considerate administration of Britain than that of Italy." This caused the British Foreign Office to call him in next day and intimate that an envoy to the Court of St. James's would do well not to refer publicly to His Majesty's Government as the lesser of two evils. But meanwhile 9-year-old John Martin had completely won over the Nile Club...
While it is likely that Miss Lee, who in private life is Mrs. Bing Crosby, may prefer the crooning she can hear at home to the throbbing tones of John Boles, she manages her share of the proceedings with considerable verve and a singing voice that does credit to her family. By a strange turn of affairs, after five reels spent in manipulating the affections of Boles and the checkbook of Walburn, Miss Lee is eating dinner in the very tavern where the thug who stole her boss's negative is bragging about his exploit. Best song: I Found...
When the League Council finally met to rubber stamp this formula, Ethiopia's Professor Jeze made his only score for the week. He glared at President Litvinoff and hissed: "You offer us the choice between suicide and assassination. Well, we prefer assassination...
...handed instead a 2% aqueous solution, since few places outside of institutions carry the tincture. Miss Hill's researches found that the aqueous solution of mercurochrome is less potent than tincture of iodine. The reason why the aqueous solution is so generally sold is, of course, that people prefer it to the smarting tincture; and in their desire for painlessness, they choose something less efficacious...