Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...playing at the Shubert Theatre. He is the only one of all the funny boys in the show who is at once an actor and comedian. He is the real thing, and the audience knows it. They wait patiently through many a skit, song, or splurge, all for the sake of laughing...
...thesis of "Mammonart" is interesting and the classifications, to say the least, are original, but Mr. Sinclair's outlook on life has always been too suspiciously blased to permit his making accurate generalizations. Art for art's sake, after all, was true long before it was trite...
...policies of college newspapers there should be crystallized the highest ideals of the younger generation whose point of view it represents. A policy of boosting its own college or university for the sake of boosting, one of "selling" the educational opportunities offered by the faculty, one of warning Freshmen to wear their green caps is not one that is reflective of such high ideals. It is on a par with all that is mean and laughable on Main Street. It is upon the rejection of this sapless philosophy, upon the conviction that the rising generation has a right...
Introduce Me. Douglas MacLean takes his smile for an airing on the Alps. As in his earlier picture, The Hottentot, Mr. MacLean is again a timid young man harried into rash deeds for the sake of a maiden fair. Constructed along formulistic lines, his gallivanting around the dizzy cliffs yet has its comic urge...
...through the life of an individual in the life of society as a whole - can any business managership or other such goals so much sought do other than tend to lead one into narrowness from the lack of thought gives such ends as truth. Cannot sports for sports sake accomplish more than sports for the many other motives pressing them on? And if sports or any other outside activity were to be placed on such a level as to dominate great over-emphasis, should not greater "ewards for all, both mentally and physically, socially and morally be forth-coming...