Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playing the game for the game's sake is a very worthy ideal, but competition is the spice of all sports and if something as ephemeral as a letter adds to the zest why seek to cast...
...this has been changed. Behind such shibboleths as "sport for sport's sake" and "athletics for all" stands a real change in values. Where every effort is bent toward an ideal of every man playing a game for its own sake, the meaning of the false distinction conferred by an athletic letter has vanished. There was a time when only the men who wore letters played; now nearly everyone plays, and while the letter may serve a purpose as a marker of outstanding ability in a game, there should be gradations of honors among the different sports...
...persuaded by a smalltown boss in Missouri to run as dummy candidate for Mayor. So potent has been his appeal over the footlights that he gets all the women's vote, is elected. Backstage scenes of the type resorted to here are no longer convulsive for their own sake. Nor does pleasant hokum like the sale of candy with a souvenir in each & every box, redeem the longer intervals of sluggish comedy. Henry Hull makes the actor-mayor only a conventional juvenile. The Passion Play, traditional drama of Christ's last days, has been given for more than...
...struggle between art for art's sake and marching nationalism, Miss Le Gallienne sounded the note that art was as universal as the flagwaver's fear of that magic monosyllable...
Accustomed to Coventry but not to assault, the little theatre will probably adopt a permanent policy of tweaking august official beards. Such irreverence is art for the sake...