Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the Ohio gubernatorial race. By his energy he had worked himself out of his Washington job, having brought the Navy's five-year air program to completion in four. At his suggestion Secretary Adams has recommended that the Ingalls post be abolished for economy's sake...
...tenderness. But shades of the prison-house begin to close. First there are accidents, then an explosion in the mine. Danny helps to haul the cooked bodies out. Horrified, he wanders about the streets in a daze, realizing what a life it is to which, for hunger's sake, he is doomed. Above his boy's head, above the sooty fog, shine out the stars; but these he cannot eat, and barely...
...farmed out as a maid-of-all-work in the Yorke family. Sally loves her employers, thinks them perfection until gossip below stairs and her own observations make it clear that they have troubles undreamed of by her. Mrs. Yorke lets her husband love her only for babies' sake; Mr. Yorke wants to love her for her own. The trouble thickens. Mr. Yorke takes to drink, then to infidelity, then to his heels. Sally, an innocent amazed spectator, finds herself looking for another place...
...Author. Though born of farmer stock (Kewaskum, Wis., 1901) Author Wescott's family "has aristocratic rather than middleclass prejudices; it does not hoard up its sons for the sake of the family fortune, but regards it as a duty to make gifts of them to 'the State.' "... Intended by them to be an ecclesiastical offering, though his own ambition was to be a musician, Glenway has turned out to be a Literary Gift. His books, The Apple of the Eye, The Grandmothers, Goodbye Wisconsin, The Babe's Bed, picture his native Middle West of which...
...budding green things which on days like this defy the name of the Blue Hills; of dripping paddles moving on a quiet river: of everything which fortunate people have always done in May. He is even that worst of sentimentalists, one who loves a tradition for its own sake, and regrets its passing. New things may be best, but the old are consecrated...