Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...casket in Tokyo's Westminster Abbey, Yasukuni Shrine, to the memory of 531 soldiers killed in Manchuria and China since the beginning of the present troubles,* he sat down to celebrate his 32nd birthday with a large and elaborate luncheon. At 2 p. m., just when the sake bowls were succeeding the raw fish salad, the sound of dozens of clattering wooden geta disturbed the palace guards. Newsboys in checked kimonos were rushing bundles of extras to the kiosks with news of a great Japanese tragedy at Shanghai...
...fellows sitting at that security peanut stand in Wall Street. "Yes sir, it's not what you think, not what the peanutters in Wall Street think. Damn it, we're approaching business recovery. Prosperity, sure as the sun, will rise tomorrow morning. . . . But for God's sake, keep politics out of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. We're not giving any money away. We're loaning it on adequate security. We could have political bunk and political smut committees and damned demagogy down there at the corporation but we're doing a business...
...Muller, a circus mechanic, he opens a bicycle shop. Soon Muller and he are fooling with automobiles. Their first model is bought by Financier Homer Flint, from Pentland where Joanna lives. Pierre goes into business under Homer's wing, marries his daughter Hazel for her fortune's sake. All goes well until, one day on the golf links, he sees his son Peter, Joanna's child. With Joanna's consent he sends Peter off to Eastern school and college. Pierre often goes East to see him, gets mixed up with Vampire Claire Benson, loses...
...sake of accuracy, I want to suggest that President Roosevelt was attending a banquet of the Vermont Fish & Game Club at the home of ex-Lieut. Governor Nelson W. Fisk at Isle La Motte, Vt. when this news reached him. He arrived in Vermont September...
Disappointed in men, Lucy gives all her love to God. As an aged novice in a Belgian monastery she forces herself to put up with disciplinary mortifications for her new love's sake. But her already wearied body cannot stand the strain. Sick, she is sent back to England. When her son. through no fault of his own, fails to meet her train, she waits for him on the station platform until she falls. After a brief agony in a hospital, Death pays her wages in full. Beginning, as in Hatter's Castle, with a cloud no bigger than...