Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousands of hours overtime under great tension and the strain has had its effect. I do not regret those hours, nor complain of them. . . . I was offered an opportunity to turn to writing as a profession. That made me realize my duty to my family and that for their sake I must try to better establish my financial position. . . . The welfare and the glory of the Federal Bureau of Investigation will always be uppermost in my mind. . . . "Leon G. Turrou...
...begins in the eighth grade. Prime aim of the Ford educational plan is to produce a nation of handy men, rather than poets or philosophers. His curriculum excludes all but "useful" subjects. Thus, his schools teach no foreign language, no art but the utilitarian, no literature for its own sake. Fond of moral precepts such as abound in the McGuffey Readers, Henry Ford values as literature Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith, because of its message. He likes to read to children these McGuffey verses...
...them. During the industrialization of the last century most millionaires made their wealth without social regard and only thought of society post facto--sometimes to ease their conscience. The desire for security--which involves comfort, leisure, marriage--is intelligent, but the ambition to make money for the sake of money should have been buried with the primitive Forty Niners. The tradition of money-making has delayed intellectual progress; it has tended to narrow the American mind and stifle the enthusiasm for social improvement. It is a serious handicap to the graduate in the process of adjusting himself to society...
...latest book, Three Guineas, tall, droopy-eyed Virginia Woolf, longtime queen of London's literary Bloomsbury, ridiculed men's (meaning, of course, Englishmen's) clothes. Dress, said she, is worn by women: 1) to cover the body, 2) for beauty's sake, 3) for men's sake; by men: to advertise rank and position. Woolf on Englishmen's full dress clothes: "How many, how splendid, how extremely ornate...
...organization of the tams is now big business. A lot of fine sportsmen are on the committees, but they tend to be elbowed out of control by the politicians, wire pullers, and promoters. The games are slipping out of the hands of those interested in sports for their own sake...