Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ablest amateur woman tennis player in the world. In 1929, she was presented at Buckingham Palace in a shin-length ivory satin dress, exhibited her paintings in London, won the Wimbledon title for the third time, married Frederick S. Moody Jr. So good was she that, for the sake of excitement, all tennis experts could do was look for her closest rival. They found one near at hand: Helen Jacobs, of Berkeley. Three years younger than Mrs. Moody, Miss Jacobs was rudely and obviously labeled "Helen II." thus starting the bitterest rivalry in the history of women's sport...
...waged a bitter battle to present documentary evidence that atheism, free love and disarmament for the sake of Red revolution and dictatorship are the principles of Communism-Socialism and that notorious jailbird Communist agitators, Negro and white, speak constantly in U. of C. halls sponsored by U. of C. authorities. The seditious pronouncements recorded at one Communist Congress alone, held there, should convict the U. of C. authorities under the Illinois sedition...
...high school? Do you recall the almost unanimous and inevitable verbal and mental reaction on boys by the exhibition of female nudity in such pictures? To 99 boys out of 100 it is not art, but sex. Art is newsworthy and TIME-worthy; sex is not. For the sake of thousands of high school boys who read TIME why not select pictures for your Art columns that are recognized art and yet not likely to be ogled at in the high school library? Most of your adult readers would not object to such revision of policy...
...lush 1920's there mushroomed in the U. S. the Little Theatre Movement in which strictly art-for-art's-sake productions were presented by serious amateurs, earnest dilettantes. Far more serious, far more earnest is the Depression-born movement of workers' theatres which are currently putting on "agitprop" (agitational propaganda) plays in 300 U. S. cities...
...city, went on alone. Soon bad blood broke out; each was afraid to sleep lest the other kill him. One night Dobbs shot Curtin, robbed him, left him for dead. But, almost within sight of the city and safety, Dobbs encountered three rascally peasants, who killed him for the sake of his ragged clothes and footsore burros. When they found the little sacks of gold dust they did not know what to make of them, emptied them in disgust...