Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...painting of himself to be made and sent to His Holy and Imperial Majesty Charles V, as a token of goodwill that might facilitate the transfer of property. Titian made the picture about 1525, since when it has remained forever fair, though the cities and the man for whose sake it was created have long ago filtered into the earth. For centuries, it was believed lost. An art dealer, A. S. Drey, discovered it, sold it to the Metropolitan Museum for a sum not definitely known but rumored to range anywhere from $150,000 to $1,000,000. Funds were...
...continued: "The worst sufferer of all, however, is not the child nor the public, but the church. A performance of this kind is fair notice to all ... of the desperate plight in which the leaders of the church feel themselves to be." The Christian Century also said: "For the sake of the child herself, for the sake of the public conception of religion, for the sake of the church, this crass exploitation should be stopped...
Conclusions: 1) The plav may postpone the next war with Mexico for several weeks. 2) For a line relative to making war on Mexico for the sake of oil interests? "Hearst tried in 1911, but he didn't get away with it"?Oilman William Randolph Hearst may institute libel suit against Producer Jed Harris. 3) Theatregoers have a perfect example of the modern drama of "debunk" ? melodramatic, cruelly ironical, peppered with smart cracks, staged with a faithfulness to reality that belies its flashy, imaginative cunning...
...meeting between M. I. T. and Harvard was regarded with some apprehension as an answer to the first objection. A friendly, courteous spirit and treatment of the contestants was the gratifying result, and satisfactory evidence that the art of fisticuffs is of interest for its own sake...
...long been waiting: a lecture on Wagner. Wagner has always been for him a most fascinating figure, not only because of the music to which the Vagabond is an ardent convert -- but because of the man himself. Unquestionably, the composer's greatest works were written not merely for the sake of the music as is usually the case but as much to embody his philosophical ideas and theories. Wagner was what one might call a musical-dramatist; he was also a stony socialist of the romantic turn of mind. In the four great works which make up "The Ring...