Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prominent among the delights of the play is the program. If you haven't already been won over, go to the show for the sake of the program, which you can't very well get otherwise. It was written by a clever man whose wit was just a bit too fast for him. A sample: "as fast on the verbal comeback as a handball...
...Vagabond's best wishes then, to Mr. DeVoto and the Saturday Review. They have a chance for fame and influence, a chance that should be seized upon avidly for the sake of culture in America...
...These have been assumed by the Berlin regime to the immense relief of municipalities who in effect have pooled their insolvencies with Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, today the representative of such SUPERINSOLVENCY that creditors of Germany throughout the world dare not for the sake of their own bluffs call his bluff and in effect Germany gets along as if she were solvent...
...slow and varied metamorphosis. But the essence of the university tradition has remained constant. From the first foundations to the present, four main streams have watered the soil on which the universities have flourished. These ultimate sources of strength are: first, the cultivation of learning for its own sake; secondly, the general educational stream of the liberal arts: thirdly, the educational stream that makes possible the professions; and, lastly, the never-failing river of student life carrying all the power that comes from the gregarious impulses of human beings. All four streams are easily discerned bringing life to the English...
...therefore bought my Latin Psalms for the sake of N. B. C. and then one evening while listening to the usual rodomontado of my excellent Alois Havrilla (who still loves me though he had been obliged to repeat the same nonsense about my superior qualifications for years and years and years) I idly looked at the back page of my Psalms--which was of course the front page as this was supposed to be a book of Hebrew--and I was so surprised that the production man had to wave wildly from the control room to make me realize that...