Word: sake
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...theatre, he continued, "Whereas the reactions of an audience may make or break a show on the stage, only comedians must have an active audience on the air. My weekly broadcasts are given without onlookers, for then I can re-enact a drama for its own sake. If people want to applaud, let them do so in their homes...
...badly and beneath his abilities to insure team victory. But that is exactly the position adopted by wrestling coaches, especially throughout New England. For the past several years, one of our fore-most rivals in the sport has each year followed this policy of submerging a man for the sake of a few points. Such a situation is much different from that of a football team, for instance, where one man does the dirty work of blocking and tackling to the exclusion of any spectacular ball-carrying on his part in order to make the team more powerful...
...firemen of Woburn, Mass, had their collective pay cut $7,600 last year for economy's sweet sake. The Mayor of Woburn is William E. Kane, and his brother Michael is fire chief. Last week Woburn's firemen, all but the chief, sued
...conclave to 15 days. Last week it looked as if Cardinal O'Connell, 79 and ailing, wintering in Nassau, might miss his third conclave. At news of the Pope's death he booked passage north on an airplane, then caceled it for his health's sake, embarked for Manhattan on a ship...
...seems that when the genus home finally became a biped instead of a monkey, the tendency in battle was not to grab a meat axe, but to wrestle. Gradually the set-to between cavemen grew into an activity practiced for amusement's sake. The sport reached a high point in development with the Graeco-Roman method in the west and the Oriental style in the east...