Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...innocent. Even his lawyer did not believe him. He faced life sentence. Honest Feit looked evilly around the court, whispered something to his lawyer, one Emmanuel Celler. Lawyer Celler, realizing that his client was sure to be convicted, put a fingerprint expert on the stand, asked him, for the sake of form, to identify Mr. Shapiro's fingerprints with Mr. Feit's. "Positively not the same," said the expert. The Judge ordered an acquittal. In the mind of the jurymen, the judges, the clerk, the counsel might have been the belief that this man, an arch criminal...
...Harvard Athletic authorities that the Harvard-Princeton football game be suspended for 1927 and 1928 the PRINCETONIAN was for the most part silent on the matter, but nevertheless dubious. It was generally felt that Princeton was big enough, sensible enough to overlook a slight lack of tact for the sake of keeping unimpaired an old and undeniably valuable athietic relationship between three great eastern universities...
Thus far he has achieved one striking forensic passage quoted in news organs throughout the Empire: "Men who are engaged in sport for sport's sake belong to the highest class that the country can boast-clean, generous, high-minded. When this class has the opportunity to compete with the same class of representatives of another nation it cannot fail to sow the seeds of a mutual knowledge and understanding which will ripen into a lasting fine friendship between the nations...
Katja. The ordeal whereby for the sake of a nation, royalty submits to degrading incognito, is much met in Shubert operetta. In Katja, however, there is more than enough humor and music to relieve the redundancy of thought. Having already charmed the British, it brings to this civilization "Leander", a song that needs no comment because everyone will soon know it by heart; Doris Patston, a pert lass who captivates; Jack Sheehan, comedian, who exchanges an honest laugh for every minute of the audience's attention; Lilian Davies, prima donna, and Allan Prior, tenor, who can sing...
...disposal, could run a college dining-room which would offer a varied diet, without a financial loss. It requires a great gift to arrange a menu to please the critical palates of college men, but it can be done, granting that the clientele will occasionally eat elsewhere for the sake of change. To appoint a dining-room so that it will be physically attractive, which is a very heavy factor in determining the eating preference of people, is another great task that will confront the man who undertakes to manage such an establishment, and one upon whose success depends largely...