Word: preferred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...check is not popular in France. Frenchmen prefer payments to be made in cash no matter how large they are. If a merchant be persuaded to accept one, he can be seen a few minutes later closing his shop and scurrying off to the bank upon which the check is drawn; he never by any chance deposits it in his own bank-if he has one. This is partly due to the fact that French law only allows him 24 hours to make legal declaration of default on checks and commercial bills. The Government has proposed, in order to help...
George II, onetime King of the Greeks: "Paris despatches pictured me broke, seeking a business career compatible with my dignity. It was said that, could I find a good impresario, I would prefer to write plays for stage and film...
...curiosity never centres for an undue length of time upon any one subject. Some slight difficulties he has with his keeper, Collins, who is in the beginning not quite cordial. For one thing, his coming had ousted the Gibbon and there is no hiding the fact that Collins would prefer to have the Gibbon back in Mr. Cromartie's place. It had given him less work, and besides, it had never been, at any time in its life, his social superior...
...with an irresistible personality, a consuming ambition and a total lack of scruples, comes up to Vienna "on the make." It is her intention to windlass the family fortune out of a miserly and almost?not quite?inhuman old uncle who has previously cheated her father and would apparently prefer to see her starve to death. It is in the midst of this undertaking, however, that accident opens a more brilliant prospect. The family of Helmut Mylius, a curio dealer, has been kept by him in a state of semi-starvation, shabbiness and sullen despair on the plea of extreme...
...very severe account. The Ambassador was no more than inadvertent in the picking of English words, the Secretary seems to have been quite innocent of the implication that might be attached to them, and the Senator merely gratified his exquisite taste for meticulous diplomatic expression. So at least we prefer to believe...