Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly before his death, in order to encourage the old man, one of his physicians told him that there was nothing really the matter with him-he would be all right. "Then, said France with a feeble smile, "for goodness' sake give me some sort of illness, so that it may end quicker!" Those were almost his last words...
...most prep schools, unhappily, there is too little sport for sport's sake. A man goes out for a team either because it is an honor to make the team, or a disgrace not to make it. If athletic games are not for sport, but only to win, we might as well burn up every football and baseball in the country. Why not substitute wood chopping or coal shovelling, which would develop the muscles just as well as athletics and perform useful service in addition? If athletics are not for the sake of sport, they are no better than...
...Preparatory schools are not encouraging athletics in the proper way nowadays. There is too much of this 'sport for the sport's sake stuff.' That is a fundamentally twisted idea. Boys should be taught to play to win, not in any desperate unprincipled way, but by means of determination and fight. The boys who at prep school are not good enough to make the first squad are relegated to a club team where they play for the pleasure of the game. Thats all bosh! Let them get hurt a bit! It will do them lots of good...
...City that Never Sleeps. This is a warning to modern mothers not to become bootleggers for the sake of the family income. The mother involved, widow of a saloon keeper, kept selling liquor even after 1919 to give her daughter the "advantages." Among the advantages in her Park Avenue existence the daughter found cocktails and a fortune hunter. When the latter began shooting at the police in the mother's downtown cabaret, the girl recalled the tableau long ago when her father was murdered in the old saloon. She recognized her mother and returned to her childhood sweetheart...
Professional baseball has again covered itself with mud. Two players have tried to discredit the sport which they represent, for the sake of victory. What effect this incident will have on the national game is hard to predict. The wound which the White Sox inflicted in 1919 may prove still sensitive to the salt of scandal...