Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pleasing" the sun goddess Amatersu Omikami (divine ancestress of the Emperor) by playing to her primeval and mystic music which lasted through the night. Then with elaborate ceremony the Son of Heaven offered boiled rice and strong drink to the Sun Goddess, partaking with her of the food and Sake. On succeeding days three grand banquets were held at which five of the most noble ladies of Japan performed symbolic ritual dances which each Tenno gazes upon once. Followed an imperial pilgrimage by Emperor Hirohito and Empress Nagako to the tombs and shrines of His Majesty's 123 imperial...
...music. But operatic singers, operatic trappings rarely enhance a poetic mood. Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg as Rautendelein managed her bulk skillfully, sang difficult music easily, spent clear high notes' lavishly. But her appearance, her acting left little illusion. Nor could Giovanni Martinelli forget he was a tenor for the sake of the bellcaster. Dramatically it was Baritone Giuseppe de Luca in a minor role who served best. As Nickelmann he never once stepped out of the well, just poked up his moss-covered head, beat his webbed hands against the side. Yet when with a "Brekekekex" he lost Rautendelein...
...effectively by UFA and Sovkino. Instead, the drama of its one genuine situation-a harlot (Norma Talmadge) suspected of the murder of a suicide-is ignored in favor of a series of patently unreal and cinematic developments in which the lady, reformed, is called upon to perform for the sake of her country an act which patriotism unconvincingly transforms from a two-rouble incident to a Holy Sacrifice...
...sake of those undergraduates who many wish to meet any particular member of the faculty a certain group has been especially urged to attend each tea. The portion of the faculty which has been invited to attend is as follows: Division of Fine Arts, school of Landscape Architecture, school of Architecture, Officials of the College Library, Division of Philosophy, Division of Anthropology...
Even if the new "House plan at Harvard scrupulously disowns connections with a vaguely similar system in effect at Oxford. Cambridge has some features in common with the country which includes its more venerable name sake. The most noticeable of these is that, during the fall at least, the history of Cambridge, like that of England, is one of continual invasion. Already this year the Vagabond has seen successive onslaughts by cadets, Indians, Quakers and other forces, and here another weekend is at hand and with it he discovers that his favorite haunts have been invaded by an army...