Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Teheran, the Persian Assembly, or "Majlis," adopted a resolution deposing the present Kajar dynasty "for the sake of the national welfare," by a vote of 80 to 5. The resolution "entrusted the Government to Reza Khan"- to exactly what extent is not known. Cables report that he has assumed "the office and rank of Shah"; and contrarily that "the Majlis is deliberating as to what shall be the permanent form of Persia's Government," and is leaning toward a republic with Reza Khan as President. The former version is supported by picturesque "details" to the effect that...
...growing popularity of wit for wits sake both in literature and in the drawing-room has led the editors of the Bookman to suggest that contemporary society in living in another age of Pope. The ascendancy of the light, smart novel as exemplified by Arlen, van Vechten, Huxley and their school, the Restoration atmosphere of the stage, the cynicism of the columnists--all point, they think, to "the hollowness of the times, a Godlessly clever...
...their diverse individual, mutual, and common problems as they arise in the intricate, incessant interplay of life; to understand and utilize, too, the environment in which that life must be lived. There will be diminishing place for any arid or ornamental "scholarship" (that is, mere erudition for its own sake out of books), for any complacent self-exclusion in a life of purely intellectual contemplation. Before anything worthwhile is written, something must be done, something must be lived! Men and women will be too busy, too much occupied with exploration into fields hitherto beyond even imagination, to tolerate the existence...
...Metropolitan Opera Company does not believe itself called upon to lower its standards for the sake of proving its 'Americanism...
...remember having noticed on various occasions the name of the late President Woodrow Wilson ridiculed by university publications at a time when that name was most unpopular among the Italian students; but never was their language in any way discourteous or defamatory. I think, Mr. Editor, that for the sake of sane judgment, which is due to all men, including Mussolini, it would be will for our critic to resort to less ambiguity in his mad search for humor. Peppino Porfilio...