Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appropriation when a group of undergraduate athletes and fraternity men became annoyed at charges of campus radicalism. Breaking up a meeting of the pinko League for Industrial Democracy one warm, moonlight night, they grabbed the leaders, dragged them down to Lake Mendota. "For God's sake, fellows," remonstrated a professor who happened upon the scene, "think of the University." Plop! Plop! Plop! Into chilly Lake Mendota went three howling Leaguers...
...dignity's sake the President last fortnight laid a ban on candid camera portraits of himself (TIME, May 13). For time's sake he followed up that order last week with an edict against further portraits in oil. In Washington, Nicolas Richard Brewer, 77-year-oldster who painted the President few months ago, observed: ''The President is a very excellent subject if he behaves himself. The trouble is he jumps around too much...
...pier to meet him on the return half of a round-the-world trip were his auto-racing Son Phillippe and his daughter-in-law. Son Phillippe had been quoted in Manhattan as calling French wine "disgusting." To his father, who runs his profitless vineyards for tradition's sake, he earnestly explained: "What I said was that three-fourths of the French wines now reaching America are lousy...
...delighted. But when he discovers at last that he has been made a tool in an extremely nefarious scheme by which Mr. Norris is trying to sell German Communist secrets to the French secret service, our hero sees through the old codger at last. For old times' sake he helps Mr. Norris make his getaway, wishes himself a good riddance...
...take real pleasure in the racquet games. Year after year, Harvard tennis teams have scored victory after victory, and year after year, Harvard's squash players have won laurels in countless tournaments. Yet so far as tennis is concerned, Harry constantly insists on playing for the game's sake, rather than for the sake of piling up an impressive winning streak. And those who have had the privilege of his instruction in squash never forget his emphasis on sportsmanship first, and victory second...