Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...permitted to leak from, the Court of St. James's last week that "The King is furious." Never to date has the Sailor King seen why for the sake of some blackamoors his beloved war ships should be risked in the Mediterranean. The British Royal Family is on definitely friendly terms with the Italian Royal Family. As a friend, George V is stanch, and the salty admirals who are the King's cronies over late Scotch nightcaps have never considered the League worth a brave man's belch...
...young woman riding with Hopkins screamed at Lord de Clifford: "For God's sake, why were you driving on our side of the road...
...matter at all, said what he felt in no uncertain terms -and kept saying it, that the sheer power of public opinion would go far to make war impossible. I am a very profane man. I am not being profane now when I say, 'For Christ's sake, say or do what...
...road to neutrality. He can only list materials of an obvious military character, such as machine guns and poison gases, while knowing as well as any one-else that oil, scarp iron, and cotton are equally necessary to a country at war and must be withheld for the sake of true neutrality. All the pleading in the world will bore American businessmen as long as they are legally permitted to sell oil to the belligerents...
...miss productions have been frequent in Chicago this season. Manager Paul Longone has felt obliged to economize on rehearsals. He has let his ensembles suffer for the sake of hiring a few big names. Backstage sensation occurred last week when Conductor Gennaro Papi resigned a week before he was to have conducted the U. S. premiere of Respighi's La Fiamma. Manager Longone issued a blazing statement to the effect that Papi had found it impossible to memorize the relatively difficult score. Papi railed against artistic conditions in general, implied that it was all too easy for mediocre performers...