Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stayed there four years, then went to Los Angeles which began to have its financial worries last winter when William Andrews Clark Jr. announced that he could support the Or chestra for only one more season (TIME, Oct. 30). Los Angeles like Cleveland needed a new conductor for the sake of its boxoffice. It released Rodzinski from a contract which had another year to run, called towering Otto Klemperer from Berlin...
...Union Committee (of all things), we should almost welcome even adverse comment. As Lord Denry Wotton said. "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about." So, praise or condemn those magnificent rooms, but, for God's sake, know that they exist! John...
...spring Adolf Hitler's campaign against the Jews drove Schnabel from Berlin but when he was invited to visit the U. S. again he was as uncompromising as before about his programs. He would come but he would play only Beethoven. He would not play encores for the sake of sending any audience away with a marshmallow taste in its mouth. On no account did he want a long tour which might let him get stale. He preferred to play with orchestras, although orchestra fees are always lower than those for individual recitals...
Joan is a little girl from the Bronx, out of work. Her sister goes to see Frank Rocci, the poultry racketeer with an income of a half million a year, and asks him for old time's sake in the ash cans to get Joan a job in a chorus. Frank is regular, procures a position for the dear 'girl in Texas Kaley's night club and forgets her until he sees her in action: she is too wonderful so the hard boiled gangster loses his grim equanimity and his heart in a gentlemanly fashion. Before niches have found their...
...eligibility rules, which are beside the point as long as footbal remains on its present basis, and has brought his whole case to its present low level by failing to point out that if West Point goes, all the other teams who are on the schedule for the sake of the gate, and all the other appurtenances of the mercenary outlook, must go at the same time...