Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to persuade or maneuver the undergraduates into an espousal of intellectual cultivation. Hard mental labor is now fashionable; in Harvard College, and better than fashionable; it is at last socially respectable and better than that, it is rejoiced in and enjoyed for its own sake by young men who discover to their amazement and delight that they have brains and that it is exhilarating to be able to use them...
...Every British officer knows the story of the Australian Brigadier General in France during the War who read an announcement at evening parade: "Douggie Haig is coming down here tomorrow so you chaps better get your rifles clean for once and for God's sake don't call...
...twelve years, were offering the country a "New Deal" if Herbert Clark Hoover and the Republican Party were voted out of office. President Hoover, with scorn and defensive anger, was mocking Governor Roosevelt's promises as "a new shuffle," asking to be kept in office for the country's sake...
...swept the Garden as Mr. Coolidge referred briefly to his past service,"When I was in Washington. . . ."He called the Republican party "the most efficient instrument for sound popular government ever entrusted with the guidance of a great nation." He deprecated the idea of Change for Change's sake. He referred to Democrat Grover Cleveland as "a wise statesman." Excerpts...
...open secret that Speaker Garner has been kept muzzled by his Democratic managers for discretion's sake. Told off to chaperon him was able, tactful Charles Hand, longtime secretary to indiscreet James John ("Jimmy") Walker. Unlike Vice President Curtis, the Democratic Nominee has not been allowed to stump the small time political circuits. While the Speaker was silent his rule of the House was built up by G. O. Partisans into a major campaign issue. Again & again President Hoover pointed to it with shuddering alarm as the kind of thing of which the country could expect a lot more...