Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boston Herald referred to President Coolidge in a recent editorial as "the wise old President". Really, I prefer the simple epithet of H. L. Mencken, "Doctor Coolidge". Loyal Opposition...
...Warren was called to Washington in advance of the nomination and therefore a hint of it leaked out. The Michigan delegation in Congress, headed by Senator Couzens, began to make some objection, protesting that if a Michigan man was to be appointed they would prefer Governor Groesbeck to Mr. Warren. The President paid no heed, however, evidently feeling that a Cabinet appointment was not patronage and that accordingly he need consult only himself. Result: Mr. Warren's nomination was sent to the Senate next...
...examinations scheduled for that day have been postponed--one hour!--so that students will not be obliged to "watch the eclipse through the windows of the examination rooms." Did it not occur to the faculty that some of those who have examinations at this time might quite reasonably prefer to witness a total eclipse rather than the more common and less interesting phenomenon of a partial eclipse? Personally, I feel fortunate to be free, but I sympathize with those interested in the eclipse...
...annihilate Mr. Barton in this friendly argument, Editor Swope closed with the adduction of Thomas Jefferson's remark that, if it were left to him to decide "whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I would not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter...
...Book. Portrait painting is distinctly not among the lively arts. Wherefore it is not profitable in the U. S. nowadays. But even scholars and gentlemen prefer to have their books sell. Wherefore Mr. Ernest Boyd, though he has called his new book Portraits, has not been indulging solely in profitless portraiture. He has also, and more often, been cocking a sharpish eye, flicking a sharpish pen and dashing off a row of caricatures as lively as ever you please...