Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot embrace stout prime donne very well, because I am so fat myself!' " Elsewhere there is this wise remark, "You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will en-'danger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake." The fine old figure of the Emperor Franz Josef flits through a large section of the book, together with many crowned and titled European celebrities and our own Roosevelt. At Ischl, Jeritza sang before the Emperor, in Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus. "How he applauded! In the second...
...shots rang out. One entered Cullen's neck and fatally wounded him, the other fortunately missed Miss Brennan. The latter now rushed back to her brother to find that he had been shot in the abdomen and chest. "I am dying, Shirley," he moaned. "Fod God's sake, Bill, you're not," cried .'Shirley. "I know I'm dying," Brennan con tinued. "My poor wife, my poor child ! Poor Mary!" Realizing that her brother was dying Miss Brennan said : "Do you know who they were, Bill?" "I don't," he answered. Brennan then became...
...college students, in the Middle West, kidnaped young Robert Franks, according to their own confession, and murdered him in cold blood, entirely for the sake of a "thrill." The defense, according to newspaper dispatches, is rallying its forces around a new plea, "dementia jazz-mania," in order to free the confessed murderers...
Subsequently, Sir Edward saw the agitated Imperial Chancellor, Dr. Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, who said that Britain was going to make war on a kindred nation just for the sake of the word "neutrality," just for the sake of "a scrap of paper." From that moment the phrase, "a scrap of paper," became an Allied slogan, fuel for the fire of warfare. It was Sir Edward Goschen who, in reporting the Chancellor's words, wrote himself into history, because the British Empire went to war to uphold the sanctity of inter national contracts and for other very good...
...combat at "El Capitain", it often makes mystery where we do not feel that mystery should exist. Each detall, each motion of the characters, has been carefully planned and visualized, but these details and motions are thrown into the realm of crude sensation or ill-defined symbol for the sake of intensity. The reader, who cannot fully share the intensity either of authors or characters, is occasionally mystified as a result. A more external treatment for the bulk of the story should make the incidents more real. But the effect as the story stands is considerable, and the vigor...