Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House of himself and his eight colleagues as "managers" in impeachment proceedings against Judge English, and he read five lengthy articles of impeachment, charging the Judge with arbitrary and abusive acts on the bench and with collusion with one Charles B. Thomas, referee in bankruptcy, for the sake of profit for themselves, their families and friends in the handling of the property of bankrupts. Manager Michener then demanded Judge English's conviction and removal from office for these alleged misdemeanors, and the Vice President ordered that the Senate next day resolve itself into a body for the trial...
...went there with a companion 18 months ago, and on Feb. 28 last year, apparently as a result of religious mania, shot herself in the lung after attending a Holy Year service. She recovered after her life had been in danger, and for the family's sake it was represented as an accident, but in view of what happened today the truth had better be admitted...
...Heaven's Sake. Harold Lloyd's films are simply matters of comparison. All of them are funny and some of them are funnier than others. This one tells the adventures of a rich young man who. in trying to shed a few millions, found himself promoting a mission for down-and-outers. Mr. Lloyd has done better pictures; there are only three or four comedians that could possibly do as good a one as this...
...newspaper category of master minds of the criminal world have been added more alluring terms. Recently, the press has christened a cake-eater bandit, a maniac murderer, and a radio burglar. In this manner is modern crime dally dramatized for the sake of sensation and presented to an eager public. The tendency is not new in journalism, but rarely before has it reached such artistic culmination. The confessions of "cake-eater" bandits do not usually find a place on the front page of The New York Times...
When one person tries to go as near as he can to the line of popular morality for the sake of publicity, and his adversary tries to go as near as he can to the line of publicity for the sake of popular morality, a question of ethics both interesting and perplexing confronts, the few thinking beings who care to enjoy their prerogative. In the present instance the judge who decided in favor of the lesser evil was undoubtedly acting both sanely and with a judicial preciseness. Better a Tartuffe dead and a harlequin living, than more moss covered morals...