Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moving across a background of great scenic attractiveness, and indulging in an occasional fiesta the hero manages to keep active, while Mary Astor and Marian Nixon exert themselves to live up to the respective names of Rosita and Dolores. For the sake of these two there is much hard riding, but in the end el Puma realized that might does make right, and bows his head to the inevitable...
...staff at Haneda airdrome near Tokyo one morning last week. There was many a speech, a song especially composed. A message of "highest regard" to President Hoover was handed over by the publisher of the Hochi Shimbun. Then youthful Seiji ("Kite Crazy") Yoshihara gulped a swig of consecrated sake from the Meiji shrine and jumped into his little low-wing Junkers seaplane. Someone pulled down the flag and handed it to the airman and he was off for Washington, D. C., alone...
...pallid patient. Messages went to Dr. Horace Wesley Stunkard of New York University, authority on those flat, leaflike worms called flukes. Reporters learned to spell accurately trematode, clonorchis. Ralph H. Thurber made fine human-interest copy. That he was a minister diseased for the Gospel's sake added poignancy...
...scandalous lie to say that the King has deposited millions of dollars abroad to protect himself. He has always invested the greatest portion of his wealth in Spanish interests for the sake of developing his own country. . . . It is more accurate to say that if His Majesty will not actually be pinched by monetary needs at any rate he will be nearer the pinching line than the luxury line and will have to watch his expenses closely...
Once again the members of a Harvard Debating Team are to read speeches in a radio debate. The short time allowed to each speaker and the need to hold an impersonal audience by rapid appeals to the attention make necessary set, memorized speeches. The sacrifice is made for the sake of the radio, which like the talkies is supposed to stand for progress...