Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scouting airplanes are seen. They fly low and fire on Sandino's forces and fly away. We all know they will come back with more bombs and planes and the people become frightened. Noncombatants ask me to speak to Sandino, requesting him to retire for the sake of. humanity. This I know he will...
...least a thousand times better than those with which the two comedians are equipped, plot coherence is poison to African revues. They, like jazz, should be utterly lawless and naive. If the show is still in existence, however, theatregoers might do well to give it an evening for the sake of the male & hotfoot chorus...
...When tourists, natives, other unofficial persons near Rapid City chance to meet President Coolidge,. he returns their greeting with a polite bow, does not usually stop and chat with them. He broke his rule, however, for the sake of a stranger encountered on the steps of the Rapid City High School, temporary White House office. The stranger wore a hat wider even than the President's ten-gallon fishing headgear. In his silk shirt and flowing neckerchief clashed vivid colors. He wore high-heeled, embossed riding boots bearing the letters "put" in white just below each knee. Not even...
...with performing an inhuman act you have spoken humane words. I do not wish that blood should be shed by my fault. I do not wish that civil war should break out in our country. "I surrender for the sake of France. I surrender for the memory of my boy, knowing full well that the men who are behind me could create bloodshed and trouble. I do not wish that others should feel the grief I have known. I surrender to the cry of Vive la France." From below M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe cried, "I thank...
...certainly the one which hit most remarkably right into the center of all problems that vexed the younger generation of Germany at the beginning of this century, the generation which was morbidly inclined to believe that they were all decadents, and devoted to nothing but art for art's sake...