Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President. He moves too fast and too violently for them. So they are judging him purely by immediate results. If results are bad in the next couple of months, the people are liable to desert their leaders. The President knows this and is after quick success, for the sake of the larger hopes...
...interests were as small as Great Britain's much touted Persian oil wells. But it is clear that no adult judgment of Japan's conduct can be made until the charges that she bribed the revolting Chinese governments are either substantiated or dispelled. Granting, for the sake of argument, that treaties with an overturned and incomplete government are merely academic in the face of a vital threat to national safety, there is still a certain overzealous arrogance in Japan's foreign policy which even Mr. Kawakami's skill can not explain away. The present book deals also with the structure...
Nobody paid any attention to him although he had risen to his feet for the sake of effect and he sat down again with some abruptness unable to remember whether he had made his joke or not. "Good fellows, but a little slow." He sighed and started to light a cigarette but forgot to strike a match so that it never got him anywhere. "It's more fun to be fooled." He sighed again...
These, however, are defects which one must suppose the poet deliberately risked for the sake of his valid achievements. A part of Hart Crane's ambition, as his essay on "Modern Poetry," (included in this volume) indicates, was to assimilate the urban and mechanical aspects of contemporary life while resuming Whitman's celebration of the American nation. To this task he brought an exceptionally large and varied poetic vocabulary, and it fecundity in metaphor with appears unique in contemporary poetry. Poems like "Lachrymae Christi," "Belle Isle, " and-the lyrical portions of "The Bridge," have surface brightness of texture alien...
...Waynick, editor of the High Point Enterprise, listened to Senator Hill's imitative calls, rose up to declare that the Carolina mockingbird was a better singer. In the House someone told Salisbury's veteran Representative Walter Pete Murphy that the chickadee eats insects. "For God's sake," cried he, "don't turn the chickadee loose on this House...