Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William V. Hodges of Denver, Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, called at the White House to thank Mr. Coolidge-thank him for an honor declined. The President had offered Mr. Hodges the vacant embassy at Tokyo. Mr. Hodges, a widower, had declined for the sake of his children whom he wishes to have educated...
...smoke screen behind which members of college faculties are concealing their inability to impart to others the knowledge and interest they possess in the subjects which they profess. They are, of course, quite justified in doing this if the college exists, as some seem to think, for the sake of the professors...
...These, however, were trifles. There were more serious causes of offence?for example, he was perpetually stepping on the toes of U. S. sentimentality. And he often refused to come to the .telephone when he had retired to his study. But much was forgiven him for his bride's sake. She was utterly sympathetic. It was impossible not to like...
...bear to take walks, even shake hands, with a male novelist, Eustace Bylant. Eustace is admirably veneered, intellectual, a good talker, no carnalite. Seeing that if she lives with him she can escape other male companionship, Gita proposes?not exactly marriage, of course: a ceremony for talk's sake, but after that just a joint roof and dining table...
...stand in the presence of such sights as I saw in the dance halls and not find myself stirred with wrath, and if my cheeks did not grow with hot shame, not merely that the human race had fallen so low in its tastes, but that men, for the sake of dirty gain, should be thus permitted to prostitute youth and to put a mortgage of immorality upon the coming generations...