Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wife & Texas. Afire with self-respect, Representative Patton stomped into the hearing room next day with an empty cigar box, two Department of Agriculture books wrapped in a newspaper. He was there, he explained, for the sake of "the great State of Texas," and "the pretty little country girl I married." Mr. Carpenter's son, he said; had given him the cigars during a friendly visit. Thumping the box on the committee table, Representative Patton cried: "They're nickel cigars. There were 50 of them, and I'd like to have never gotten rid of them. . . . That...
Manufacturers of soda water pumped so much water out of Saratoga Springs for the sake of the carbonic acid gas that when Dr. Simon Baruch got there the bathing establishments were in a sorry fix. Dr. Baruch found that to take a carbonated water bath he had to fill the tub from bottles of expensive Seltzer water which had been charged from deep-flowing Saratoga Springs water pumped to the surface by greedy bottlers. The State put a stop to that by buying practically all the mineral springs, letting them idle until the water table rose high enough to spurt...
...being a woman, was not invited; Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, who was tripping in the Midwest; Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, who has no taste for clambake politics, and Secretary of the Navy Swanson who, as usual, was ailing. Harry Hopkins and Rexford Tugwell went along for the sake of goodwill, as did George Peek, Frank Walker, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Charles Michelson, top men from many a board & bureau. The list also included John D. Reilly, president of Todd Shipyards Corp., Sidney Weinberg of the Business Advisory Council, Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, Arthur Mullen, Democratic boss...
...quarreled with her only daughter, who resented the unconcealed and unashamed favoritism that Mrs. Fury showed for Peter. Mrs. Fury went hungry and never complained, humiliated herself begging money from her scornful children, even stole ?12 that her gruff husband had painfully saved, all for Peter's sake. Then Peter was expelled from college. On the same day that she heard the news. Mrs. Fury learned that another son had been hurt at sea. but she scarcely thought of her injured boy in her rage and panic, bewilderment and shame, at Peter's shabby failure...
...servant's mask. I gave him so many whiskeys and sodas that I got cockeyed drinking with him. He wouldn't sit down and relax, but just stood there tossing off the drinks without a change in his tone, manner or posture. Finally I said, 'For God's sake, can't you be human and talk for once like a human being?' And what do you suppose this guy said, without changing his dead-pan expression ?'Begging your pardon, sir, but here in England we're all a bit of a snob.' So that was that...