Word: sooner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young woman between 25 and 30; the kind Elinor Glyn gushes over and Gilbert Frankau glorifies. She dresses modestly for her work (an "alas, very cheap" fur coat). She discourages the advances of young men on the tops of busses, carries her notes in a neat handbag and would sooner sit home and read in the evenings than gad about at dance places?unless her girl chum is in town. To thousands and thousands of such young women any generous author of light fiction should feel a lasting debt of gratitude. Very well, then, such shall be Mr. Oppenheim...
...They all lay down sooner or later." I'll never let TIME forget that phrase of mine, not so long as I catch it like I do this week. Gracious sakes alive oh me oh my! What a sweet lot of old ladies you must think your readers are, to publish in your SPORT department this description of bowling on the green! [TIME, Aug. 29.] Bowling on the green !! Who called that a sport anyhow ? It sounds like old ladies' stuff to me, rolling little balls on the ground and not even socking anything with them! And then...
Since De Valera's Fianna Fail is opposed in principle to accepting any ministry in the cabinet of a regime which they detest and hope to convert into a republic sooner or later observers thought last week that a coalition government headed by Tom Johnson, leader of the Labor Party, would have most chance to supplant President Cosgrave...
They all lay down sooner or later! MORRIS ("AL") EPSTEIN...
...Professor D. S. Tucker, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said people were not moving from farm to city fast enough. He indicated that the sooner the inefficient farmers leave their land to the efficient the better it would be for the national breadbasket...