Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...then things begin to happen to him. His tools disappear or break in his hands or the machine on which he is working blows up, or things fall on him, and in a general way his life is made unbearable. Consequently the men join the cellules for the sake of peace and quietness and to be allowed to get on with their jobs and draw their wages. And when the people above declare a strike- contrary perhaps to the wishes of the workmen's own Trade Unions-the cellules must obey...
...principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government, harmony in such a society being obtained not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being...
...restoreth my purse: he guideth me in my boondoggling all for my own sake...
Technical Director Henry Harris of the Barcelona Ecesa & Orphia Film Studios declared on escaping to Paris: "Barcelona is in the hands of gangs of young boys and girls, armed with rifles and machine guns, whose thirst for blood seems unquenchable. They kill for the mere sake of killing. They break into homes, throw all furniture, books and pictures out of the windows, pile them up and set fire to them. They are animated by a love of destruction and death. The present reign of terror and massacre in Barcelona bears no resemblance to any ordinary conception of revolution or civil...
...Richswitch family of the strip, they become the instantly recognized and hilariously appreciated source of an international guffaw. Only by reconstructing the characters in the strip does Piccadilly Jim restore the abused Petts to sanity, establish himself with Ann, preserve his father from masquerading, for Eugenia's sake, as a Danish Count in tortoise-shell glasses and crepe whiskers...